I always carry a pistol when I go [to the New York Public Library]. Never did trust those stone lions. - Robert Bloch

And here, all along, she'd thought of herself as being so calm, so cool, so composed.

I urge you with all sincerity to get to work, write a book, write two — three — four books, just as a matter of course. Don’t worry about ‘wasting’ an idea or ‘spoiling’ a plot by going too fast. If you are capable of turning out a masterpiece, you’ll get other and even better ideas in the future. Right now your job is to write, and to write books so that by so doing you’ll gain the experience to write still better books later on.

You make yourself sick.