People Read Fiction For Emotion-not Information

Now Is A Fact That Cannot Be Dodged.

Every Compulsion Is Put Upon Writers To Become Safe, Polite, Obedient, And Sterile.

Life Is Hard And Astonishingly Complicated.... No One Great Reform Will Make It Easy. Most Of Us Who Work -- Or Want To Work -- Will Always Have Trouble Or Discontent. So We Must Learn To Be Calm, And Train All Our Faculties, And Make Others Happy.

A Man Takes A Drink, The Drink Takes Another, And The Drink Takes The Man.

Fortune Has Dealt With Me Rather Too Well. I Have Known Little Struggle, Not Much Poverty, Many Generosities. Now And Then I Have, For My Books Or Myself, Been Somewhat Warmly Denounced -- There Was One Good Pastor In California Who Upon Reading My Elmer Gantry Desired To Lead A Mob And Lynch Me, While Another Holy Man In The State Of Maine Wondered If There Was No Respectable And Righteous Way Of Putting Me In Jail.