Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor.

They managed to find time... to tell me that there was no chance of my being accepted for service and that really I should be surprised to still be alive.

The doctor who applied a stethoscope to my heart was not satisfied. I was told to get my papers with the clerk in the outer hall. I was medically rejected.

Novel writing wrecks homes.

There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.

Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.