When the dream came into being, I always pursued it.
Dreiser... I love... and almost wouldn't speak to anyone who ever attacked him.
we live our fate before we realize exactly what it is.
I've been willing to go for years without publishing. That's been my career.
There were also some cruel reviews by women, but the tone of the male reviewers, sometimes hysterical, was different. I have suffered, but I don't want to name names but there have been men who have seemed to want to destroy me or my writing, men I don't even know.
Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert to realism.