Author: “May 1, have further details about this magnificent estate you offer for sale?” Agent: “Do you wish to buy it?” “No. But I Chink I can use your glowing description of it in my new novel.” ‘‘Your novel is not bad,” said the publisher, “but it won’t win the Nobel prize.” “1 don’t want it to,” said the author. “I would rather readers say, ‘why wasn’t lie awarded the Nobel prize?’ than that they should ask: “Why ever did they award him the Nobel prize?’ ”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 19 June 1937, Page 14
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