I do want to make it very convincing. And the best way to do that is to put most of it in dialogue.

I am writing this from what we Americans call Yurrp. In Yurrp writers are taken as seriously as Lana Turner's legs are in America - a ridiculous situation.

And finally comes culture, which is entertainment, relaxation, transport out of the pain of living.

There is comfort in routine.

I have written a great many stories and I still don't know how to go about it except to write it and take my chances.

Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.

Thou mayest rule over sin,' Lee. That's it. I do not believe all men are destroyed. I can name you a dozen who were not, and they are the ones the world lives by. It is true of the spirit as it is true of battles — only the winners are remembered.