To go rushing off to Central Africa in order to find a startling setting, is an angling after originality, which will by no means ensure doing really better work.

Oh, Ronnie, my advice is: be content to stay at home, and to write truly and sincerely of the things you know." Ronald came back to his chair; sat down, his elbows on his knees, his chin in his hands, and looked earnestly into the troubled eyes of his wife.
"But, Helen," he said, "that really is not the point.

Can't you see that I am completely possessed by this new plot?
Also, that Central Africa is its only possible setting?
It is merely a satisfactory side-issue, that it varies my _mise-en-scene_." "Must you go off there, Ronnie, in order to write it?
Why not get all the newest and best books on African travel, and read up facts----" "Never!" cried Ronald, on his feet again, and walking up and down the room.

"I must be steeped in the wonderful African atmosphere, before I can sub-consciously work it into my book.

No account of other men's travels could do this for me.