“I’ve been busy over stories, pot-boiling stories for a book, semi-autobiographical, to be finished by Christmas.” A candid description of the practical writing behind his autobiographical stories · Letter to Vernon Watkins, August 1939 Art Memory
“I liked the taste of beer, its live, white lather, its brass-bright depths, the sudden world through the wet-brown walls of the glass.” A sensuous small pleasure rendered with real relish · Essay, Quite Early One Morning Joy Memory
