Without Magic, There Is No Art. Without

It Was A Blonde. A Blonde To Make A Bishop Kick A Hole In A Stained-glass Window.

As It Is She Will Probably Turn Out To Be One Of These Acid-faced Virgins That Sit Behind Little Desks In Public Libraries And Stamp Dates In Books.

The Moment A Man Begins To Talk About Technique That's Proof That He Is Fresh Out Of Ideas.

I'm Killing Time And It's Dying Hard.

The Most Durable Thing In Writing Is Style, And Style Is The Most Valuable Investment A Writer Can Make With His Time. It Pays Off Slowly, Your Agent Will Sneer At It, Your Publisher Will Misunderstand It, And It Will Take People You Have Never Heard Of To Convince Them By Slow Degrees That The Writer Who Puts His Individual Mark On The Way He Writes Will Always Pay Off.