A Writer Of Fiction Lives In Fear.

You Should Never, Never Doubt Something That No One Is Sure Of.

By The Time I Am Nearing The End Of A Story, The First Part Will Have Been Reread And Altered And Corrected At Least One Hundred And Fifty Times. I Am Suspicious Of Both Facility And Speed. Good Writing Is Essentially Rewriting. I Am Positive Of This.

(television) Rots The Senses In The Head! It Kills Imagination Dead! It Clogs And Clutters Up The Mind! It Makes A Child So Dull And Blind He Can No Longer Understand A Fantasy, A Fairyland! His Brain Becomes As Soft As Cheese! His Powers Of Thinking Rust And Freeze! He Cannot Think -he Only Sees!

Had I Not Had Children Of My Own, I Would Have Never Written Books For Children, Nor Would I Have Been Capable Of Doing So.

There Are Many Other Little Refinements Too, Mr. Bohlen. You'll See Them All When You Study The Plans Carefully. For Example, There's A Trick That Nearly Every Writer Uses, Of Inserting At Least One Long, Obscure Word Into Each Story. This Makes The Reader Think That The Man Is Very Wise And Clever. So I Have The Machine Do The Same Thing. There'll Be A Whole Stack Of Long Words Stored Away Just For This Purpose." Where?" In The 'word-memory' Section," He Said, Epexegetically.