The business of a novelist is, in my opinion, to create characters first and foremost, and then to set them in the snarl of the human currents of his time, so that there results an accurate permanent record of a phase of history.


"The Business of a Novelist," review of William Rollins's The Shadow Before, 1934


The business of a novelist is, in my opinion, to create characters first and foremost, and then to set them in the snarl of the human currents of his ...

The business of a novelist is, in my opinion, to create characters first and foremost, and then to set them in the snarl of the human currents of his ...

The business of a novelist is, in my opinion, to create characters first and foremost, and then to set them in the snarl of the human currents of his ...

The business of a novelist is, in my opinion, to create characters first and foremost, and then to set them in the snarl of the human currents of his ...