Ocupation: Novelist
Life: 1880 - 1930
Birthday: 1880
Death: 1930
What the young writer is looking for is not a critic who will slap him on the back and say, 'Greatest thing since O. Henry,' but rather the one who will toss the manuscript down in disgust, with 'You know better than that! It's rotten! Do it all over again!'
Topics: Writing, Rotten, Toss, O Henry