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Babies Are A Nuisance, Of Course. But So Does Everything Seem To Be That Is Worth While – Husbands And Books And Committees And Being Loved And Everything. We Have To Choose Between Barren Ease And Rich Unrest – Or Rather, One Does Not Choose.

So Many People Seem To Imagine That Because The Actual Tools Of Writing Are Easily Accessible, It Is Less Difficult Than The Other Arts. This Is Entirely An Illusion.

The Idea That It Is Necessary To Go To A University In Order To Become A Successful Writer . . . Is One Of Those Fantasies That Surround Authorship.

If The Would-be Writer Studies People In Their Everyday Lives And Discovers How To Make His Characters In Their Quieter Moods Interesting To His Readers, He Will Have Learned Far More Than He Can Ever Learn From The Constant Presentation Of Crises.

Venice Is All Sea And Sculpture.