Wednesday, October 22, 2008

On Literary Etiquette

"I was brought up in the great tradition of the late 19th century or early part of this century that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.''

-James Michener, winner of the Pulitzer Prize four decades ago for ''Tales of the South Pacific'' 
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