The Novel As We Knew It In

Our Ideals, Laws And Customs Should Be Based On The Proposition That Each Generation In Turn Becomes The Custodian Rather Than The Absolute Owner Of Our Resources - And Each Generation Has The Obligation To Pass This Inheritance On In The Future.

When I Sit At My Table To Write, I Never Know What It's Going To Be Until I'm Under Way. I Trust In Inspiration, Which Sometimes Comes And Sometimes Doesn't. But I Don't Sit Back Waiting For It. I Work Every Day.

Yes, One Uses What One Knows, But Autobiography Means Something Else. I Should Never Be Able To Write A Real Autobiography; I Always End By Falsifying And Fictionalizing—i’m A Liar, In Fact. That Means I’m A Novelist, After All. I Write About What I Know.

Because The World To-day Is So Constructed That No One Can Do What He Would Like To Do, And He Is Forced, Instead, To Do What Others Wish Him To Do. Because The Question Of Money Always Intrudes—into What We Do, Into What We Are, Into What We Wish To Become, Into Our Work, Into Our Highest Aspirations, Even Into Our Relations With The People We Love!

When You Aren't Sincere You Need To Pretend, And By Pretending You End Up Believing Yourself; That's The Basic Principle Of Every Faith.