He should have read the dictionary at least three times from beginning to end and then have loaned it to someone (Location 434)
…to write I go back to the old desolation of a hotel bed room I started to write in. Tell everybody you live in one hotel and live in another. When they locate you in the other move to the country. When they locate you in the country move somewhere else. Work everyday till your so pooped about all the exercise you can face is reading the papers. Then eat, play tennis or swim or something in a work daze just to keep your bowells moveing and the next day write again. to Thomas Shevlin, 1939 (Location 625)
said that I did not believe anyone could write any way except the very best he could write without destroying his talent. (Location 1127)
