Much as I like owning a Rolls-Royce, I could do without it. What I could not do without is a typewriter, a supply of yellow second sheets and the time to put them to good use.

" Of O'Hara Hemingway once said cruelly "Someone should take up a collection to send John O'Hara to Yale. According to Gill Yale was unwilling to award the honor because O'Hara "asked for it. Canby on the subject of Peyton Place.

". He was particularly known for an uncannily accurate ear for dialogue.