It is at least worth arguing that there is a modicum of the creative novelist in all of us, and that this absorption with how men get out of difficulties, single-handedly and alone if possible, is the stuff of which we weave the warp and woof of our own better dramatic imaginings.
Humphrey BogartUgarte: You despise me, don't you? Rick Blaine: If I gave you any thought I probably would.
Humphrey Bogart