Dialogue Should Show The Relationships Among People.

Dialogue Should Convey A Sense Of Spontaneity But Eliminate The Repetitiveness Of Real Talk.

The Novel Does Not Simply Recount Experience, It Adds To Experience.

In My Experience One Thing You Don't Learn From Is Anything Anyone Set Up To Be A Lesson; What You Are To Know You Pick Up As You Go Along.

No One Of The Characters In My Novels Has Originated, So Far As I Know, In Real Life. If Anything, The Contrary Was The Case: Persons Playing A Part In My Life--the First Twenty Years Of It--had About Them Something Semi-fictitious.

After Inside Upheavals, It Is Important To Fix On Imperturbable Things. Their Imperturbableness, Their Air That Nothing Has Happened Renews Our Guarantee.