For every man in the world functions to the best of his ability, and no one does less than his best, no matter what he may think about it.
John SteinbeckI do want to make it very convincing. And the best way to do that is to put most of it in dialogue.
John SteinbeckIt is my experience that in some areas [my poodle] Charley is more intelligent that I am, but in others he is abysmally ignorant. He can't read, can't drive a car, and has no grasp of mathematics. But in his own field of endeavor, which he is now practicing, the slow, imperial smelling over and anointing on an area, he has no peer. Of course his horizons are limited, but how wide are mine?
John Steinbeck