People Don't Choose Their Careers; They Are

Curiosity Urges You On-driving Force.

Three Words That Still Have Meaning, That I Think We Can Apply To All Professional Writing, Are Discovery, Originality, Invention.the Professional Writer Discovers Some Aspect Of The World And Invents Out Of The Speech Of His Time Some Particularly Apt And Original Way Of Putting It Down On Paper.

I Do A Lot Of Revising. Certain Chapters Six Or Seven Times. Occasionally You Can Hit It Right The First Time. More Often, You Don't.

U.s.a. Is The Speech Of The People

The Business Of A Novelist Is, In My Opinion, To Create Characters First And Foremost, And Then To Set Them In The Snarl Of The Human Currents Of His Time, So That There Results An Accurate Permanent Record Of A Phase Of History.