How familiar the thought, and the tone, of this will be to almost every practising novelist. The only thing I'm sure of is that it's a good novel in time it may even be thought of as a substantially good one." Oh, I have no illusions that it will be a 'bestseller' or anything like that but if it is handled right (there's always that out) – that is, if it is not treated as just another 'academic novel' by the publisher, as Butcher's Crossing was treated as a "western", it might have a respectable sale. She had just read his third novel, Stoner, and while clearly admiring it, was also warning him not to get his hopes up. Williams replied: "I suspect that I agree with you about the commercial possibilities but I also suspect that the novel may surprise us in this respect. O n 13 June 1963, the American novelist John Williams wrote from the University of Denver, where he was a professor of English, to his agent Marie Rodell.
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