🔗 A Little Help From My Friends?

Jack London used to buy story ideas from the young Sinclair Lewis. He blamed his “damnable lack of origination”: “I’m damned if my stories just come to me,” he wrote. “I had to work like the devil for the themes.”

💬 Futility Closet

expression, you see — with me — is far easier than invention.

💬 Jack London ~ writing to Elwyn Hoffman,