To Be A Writer Is To Throw

When The Writing Is Really Working, I Think There Is Something Like Dreaming Going On. I Don't Know How To Draw The Line Between The Conscious Management Of What You're Doing And This State. . . . I Would Say That It's Related To Daydreaming. When I Feel Really Engaged With A Passage, I Become So Lost In It That I'm Unaware Of My Real Surroundings, Totally Involved In The Pictures And Sounds That That Passage Evokes.

The Crux Of The Matter Is Whether Total War In Its Present Form Is Justifiable, Even When It Serves A Just Purpose. Does It Not Have Material And Spiritual Evil As Its Consequences Which Far Exceed Whatever Good Might Result? When Will Our Moralists Give Us An Answer To This Question?

I Thought Of God As Being Able To Talk Big And Write *very* Small.

Journalism Allows Its Readers To Witness History; Fiction Gives Its Readers An Opportunity To Live It.

The Third Stage Was The Reaction That Came When The Body Struggled To Compensate For Its Ills - When, For Instance, The White Count Not Only Returned To Normal But Increased To Much Higher Than Normal Levels.