“It appeals to the imagination from the start: those colours, green and yellow, create an atmosphere. Then India, everyone has his own idea of India. Don't tell the public too much. Strike chords.”

Advice on suggestive rather than descriptive writing for popular effect · Conversation, reported by Alec Waugh

• Advice
• Imagination
• Poetry

“I wrote The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God in five hours, but I had it all planned out. It isn't poetry and it does not pretend to be, but it does what it sets out to do.”

On the deliberate craft of popular dramatic monologue rather than high poetry · Conversation, reported by Alec Waugh in My Brother Evelyn and Other Profiles (1967)

• Craft
• Poetry
• Writing