What She Needs,' Tom Said

Without Books I Would Not Have Become A Vivacious Reader, And If You Are Not A Reader You Are Not A Writer.

You Should First Follow The Plow If You Want To Dance The Harvest Jig.

I Imagined It. I Wrote It. But I Guess I Never Thought I'd See It.

I Went And Looked At One Of These Great Cathedrals One Day, And I Was Blown Away By It. From There I Became Interested In How Cathedrals Were Built, And From There I Became Interested In The Society That Built The Medieval Cathedral. It Occurred To Me At Some Point That The Story Of The Building Of A Cathedral Could Be A Great Popular Novel.

We All Now Tell Stories By Cutting From One Dramatic Scene To The Next, Whereas Victorian Novelists Felt Free To Write Long Passages Of Undramatic Summary.