Word: writing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dearest dream is to own a boat big enough to sleep and fry bacon in; to write three good novels and about 30 good plays, each of which would run a year on Broadway. A publisher once came to me and said that I had a Harold Bell Wright vein which I was neglecting to cultivate, and that there was no reason why I shouldn't make $30,000 a year if I would write that kind of book and let him publish it. He is buried in the suburbs of Philadelphia...
...following animadversion: " Every capital in Europe is being combed for news by American correspondents representing several news associations, and a greater number of individual papers than ever were represented in Europe before. These correspondents have supplied this country with accurate information, and it is possible for them to write with a detachment unattainable by European journalists because their country is not entangled in the troubles and dangers they describe...
...These fact-collectors are governed accordingly. If any big movement takes place, such as the French occupation of the Ruhr, the foreign correspondents are less concerned with fact-gathering than they are with construing the importance and probable effect of what occurs. The function of a correspondent is to write a factual narrative of events coupled with pertinent comment from others; in no sense should his despatches infringe on the sacred domain of the editorial writer. It is because of this fact that the European news in American journals is so often contradictory...
...Cecily Fairfield), had just arrived in Manhattan and we were driving up Broadway. She found the Wrigley chewing-gum sign with its flashing colors delightful. She had found the harbor of New York inspiring. Said she: " I intend to remain in America a long time-long enough to write a new novel...
...total amount of Prose written on the subject of Poetry is vastly in excess of the amount of actual Poetry that has been composed in the same space of time; accordingly it is time to turn the tables and show the world that poetry is really much easier to write than prose...