“How can we expect novelists to be moral, when their trade forces them to treat every end they meet as no more than an imperfect means to a novel?” MeanEndsForceMoralNovelTreatsTradeNovelistsImperfect Book:Pictures from an Institution: A Comedy Source: Pictures from an Institution: A Comedy
“Children make better readers than adults. They read as carefully as I write; adults read as a means of getting off to sleep. I get letters saying 'I have read your book seventeen times.' If you're an adult novelist and you get that letter, you should be afraid. You're being stalked. Kids always read them seventeen times!” IfsShouldWritingMeanChildrenBookKidsSleepReaderAdultsLettersNovelistsSeventeen Author:Daniel Pinkwater