Love Is A General Emotion. Marriage Is

In The Traditional Urban Novel, There Is Only Survival Or Not. The Suburban Idea, The Conformist Idea, That Agony Can Be Seen To And Cured By Doctors Or Psychoanalysis Or Self-knowledge Is Nowhere To Be Found In The City. Talking Is A Way Of Life, But It Is Not A Cure. Same With Religion.

An Urban Novelist Never Minds A Little Decay.

One Of The Things That Ivar Knew About Mrs. Walker Was That She Would Only Tell Him What She Knew If He Asked The Right Question, So He Spent A Portion Of His Time Meditating Over What He Might Ask Mrs. Walker And How He Might Phrase The Question.

Take Naps. Often New Ideas Come Together When You Are Half Asleep, But You Have To Train Yourself To Remember Them.

Novelists Never Have To Footnote.