"Writing a novel is not very difficult: you simply write ten pages a day for a month and then you have a novel."
— Henri Peyre

January 1, 1970

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Henri Peyre, at Yale, as quoted in Graham, Garrett, The Writer's Voice: Conversations with Contemporary Writers (1973), p. 272