“But if one day it should be published more or less as it is, liberated from exposition et cetera, people aren’t going to know that it’s just a little story of an imagination in love, any more than I did.” “They generally don’t, so what difference does that make? I write fiction and I’m told it’s autobiography, I write autobiography and I’m told it’s fiction, so since I’m so dim and they’re so smart, let them decide what it is or it isn’t.”
