"Wolfe's editor was Maxwell Perkins, who also edited Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. When Wolfe brought Perkins a draft of Of Time and the River in December of 1933, it was more than one million words long, and still growing. The first installment alone was two feet high." “All false art, all vain wisdom,… Continue reading Footnote #6
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Footnote #4
"Without raising his voice Rieux said he knew nothing about that. The language he used was that of a man who was sick and tired of the world he lived in, though he had much liking for his fellow man, and had resolved, for his part, to have no truck with injustice and compromises with… Continue reading Footnote #4
Footnote #3
"How Balzac used to compose? As a specimen of the labor that sometimes goes to make an effective style, the process is worth recording. When Balzac had a new work in view, he first spent weeks in studying from real life for it, haunting the streets of Paris by day and night, note-book in hand.… Continue reading Footnote #3
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Adventures In American Writing 