You could spend twenty years working as you are now, and at the end what would you be?
Just an assistant editor of a Sunday supplement, and still in the same place; and worse, you'd come to be contented with that, and think you were only good for that and nothing better.

You've got it in you, Condy, to be a great story-teller.

I believe in you, and I've every confidence in you.

But just so long as you stay here and are willing to do hack work, just so long you will be a hack writer.

You must break from it; you MUST get away.