After that first chapter of the boom restaurant and the exiles' club, nobody would want to lay the book down.

You're doing the best work of your life so far, and you stick to it." "It's grinding out copy for the Supplement at the same time that takes all the starch out of me.

You've no idea what it means to write all day, and then sit down and write all evening." "I WISH you could get off the 'Times,'" said Blix.

"You're just giving the best part of your life to hack work, and NOW it's interfering with your novel.

I know you could do better work on your novel if you didn't have to work on the 'Times,' couldn't you ?" "Oh, if you come to that, of course I could," he answered.