from Call it Experience, first published in 1951
"I admired her for having enough confidence in herself to give up her job to write a book, and I wondered if I would ever be able to make a similar decision. Anyway, Peggy Mitchell had resigned and, after ten years of work, Gone With the Wind was published in 1936."
"Well, so long Erskine. Hope you don't have it too hard from now on, but you can always count on me to feel sorry for you."
"In February it was colder than I thought cold could get. Shivering there in the unheated room day after day, the windowpanes frosted by the vapor of my breath, the skin over my knuckles cracked by frostbite, and trying over and over again to make a story sound to the inner ear the way I wanted it to sound."
"Naturally, all fictional personages are to some extent created from the recollection or observation of living people by the author, for otherwise people in novels and short stories would have slight resemblance to human beings."
"It was surprising how many reasons, logical and farfetched, could be found for not accepting a story."
"I was not averse to advice in principle, as long as it conformed in the main to what I was going to go ahead and do anyway."
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