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March 22, 2005
TT: Almanac
"Nathaniel Hicks said: ‘Look, Bill. I've worked with writers for years. I know a lot about them. When he writes, Edsell doesn't mean anything personal; any more than he means in that story he could do it better. He just sees a situation he thinks he can write a story about. Then he dresses it up and twists it around to make it a story. That's what they pay him for.'"‘I suppose that's right,' Major Whitney said uneasily. There might remain in Major Whitney's mind a point he did not, or could not, phrase--what were you to think of a fellow free and friendly to your face, who, all the while, was working away at something that, at elaborate length, in the permanence of print, would hold you up to the ridicule of a large audience? Nathaniel Hicks could only answer by saying: ‘That's the way they are, Bill--‘"
James Gould Cozzens, Guard of Honor
Posted March 22, 2005 12:00 PM
