I've written about Powers Hapgood. He was a Harvard graduate, son of a wealthy family who owned a cannery out there. After leaving Harvard, he went to work in coal mines and then was a CIO executive when I met him there, in Indianapolis.
Kurt VonnegutThis is a nation tragedy, of course - that we've changed from a society to an audience.
Kurt VonnegutSwoopers write a story quickly, higgledy-piggledy, crinkum-crankum, any which way. Then they go over it again painstakingly, fixing everything that is just plain awful or doesnโt work. Bashers go one sentence at a time, getting it exactly right before they go on to the next one. When theyโre done theyโre done.
Kurt Vonnegut