Top Highlights

• If a writer cares more for his language than for other elements of fiction,
• finds precise expression for what he sees,
• He must be able to report, with convincing precision, how the world looks to a child, a young woman, an elderly murderer, or the governor of Utah.
• there are so many magazines in the United States—not to speak of all those elsewhere—that almost anyone, if he’s stubborn enough, can sooner or later get a story published;
• editors, when in doubt, tend to be swayed by a record of publication elsewhere.