Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1893 — How He Does It. [ARTICLE]

How He Does It.

I asked Marion Crawford the other day if it is a fact that he averages 0,000 words a clay when at work upon a novel, as the newspapers have reported him as saying. “Yes,” he replied, “I often write that number in a day. I never sit down to write a story until it is perfectly and clearly outlined in my mind. I know precisely what I am going to say and what I am going to have my characters do. Hence, it is only the transfer of what is in my mind to paper, and that is very easy to me.’’ “Does it not tire you?” I asked. “Of course,” said the novelist, “just as any work tires a man.” “But literature is a pleasure to you, is it not ?” “Not at all,” came the perfectly frank reply, “only so far as it gives me a good living. , I write novels because it pays me do so, and that is why I essayed literature in the first place. It was not from choice, I assure you. That is the. reason, I presume, why I read so few novels. I have to write them, and that is enough.”—[Atlanta Constitution.