Show MODERN AUTHORS novels compressed or padded to salt the publishers speeds there is now an author before the public whose writings have a wide audience but who has recently been told by the critics that his work is deteriorating this is true says E TV bask in tho forum and it is not strange that it should be so lie is a man who as a writer shows the highest art in his work and his earlier books demonstrate this fact beyond a doubt but he has come under the influence of the dollar and now writes what is to order not long ago a magazine editor approached this author for his next work and found him just starting upon it 1 I would like it said the editor what will you pay for it was the authors first question how long will it probably be inquired the editor ob I 1 can make it just as long or as short as you want it said the obliging author then he added it depends upon the price I 1 can make a word story of it if you like and then it will cost you or I 1 can spin it out to words and that is really what I 1 ought to have to let the story tell itself but then I 1 will want for it of course if you cant pay more han I 1 can trim it accordingly the real question of the story itself did not enter into the question it was simply a matter of price you paid so much and got so much if you paid a little more you received a little more it was anthony over again |