US novelist.
"He was noted for books dealing with brutal realism, e.g. "The Call of the Wild," 1903."
I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
Everything is good . . . as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death's horses; they run in span.
"If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash."