The Stars Are Still There

All my life, since I grew old enough to, make my own living, I have done
so as a professional writer. That means the publication of between forty
and fifty volumes of fiction, history and travel, aside from more short
stories and articles than I can remember. Therefore I have a fair idea
of how the public reacts; and I know that when any book calls out, over
a period of four years, an average of half a dozen letters a day, the
letters themselves have significance as showing what people are thinki...