"How I did it," ([c1922])

Record Details:

Title:
"How I did it,"
Date:
[c1922]
Publisher:
Los Angeles, Calif. : The Whittingham press
Volume:
"How I did it,"
Leaf #:
00079
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
University of California Libraries
Sponsor:
MSN
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
July 19, 2022
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"How I Did It catastrophe should sweep every individual, with the exception of one, from the earth, and that one individual happened to he a writer, he would have nothing to write about. He would have nothing to write about because there would be no civilized life. And where there is no civilized life there is no drama, romance, intrigue, suspense or action. There would be no ideas. But as long as we have civilization we will have ideas, and if we look around we will surely find them. Perhaps by this time, the reader has con- cluded that I get all my ideas from the news- papers. Because real news, published facts, happened to have supplied me with some of my best material is not sufficient to warrant the statement that all my stories were gleaned from newspapers. Some of them have been personal experiences and others have been the experiences of my friends and acquaintances. We are not all of the same mind, and therefore we do not see many things in the same light that others do. The reader might pick up the morning paper and discover a story which would so interest him that he 46