Speculative Fiction Writer Seeks Reader
My chief objection is that you don’t seem to have any story to tell and I contend that a novel should tell a story and tell it well.
Horace Liveright of Boni and Liveright, responding to a manuscript submission by William Faulkner. Faulkner said he afterwards decided “to shut a door between me and all publishers’ addresses and book lists.” The next manuscript he completed was The Sound and the Fury.
via lettersandlight
