of you were going to be a writer too i hope to be someday this lecture should help you a great deal he's a great now you're ready to take your brain in the hand and go out conquer the world you know i'm hardly the person to tell you how to write because i don't follow any rules today the writers add to keep one eye on the bestseller list the other one that's divided low and that makes for dishonest i must confess i have been guilty of this dishonesty too but now that i've made my position secure i'm going t to write a really good book no more bestseller but something that i hope will be a piece of great writing good writing fine writing is here and here the dictionary is filled with all the words you need but unless the mind and the heart find those words for you you'd better leave them in the dictionary he's so brilliant because a writer fundamentally must believe in himsel that's half the ba i like to interrupt my little talk for a moment to say that i'm going to be in a position to help somebody here in this class beginning tomorrow i'm going to need a secretary i already placed the request with the university placement yoro and the man or woman whoever qualifies will get the job that's very nice of you but a lot of them well it's not a big job but the surroundings will be wholesome and you'll be able to serve your apprenticeship under someone who's already established well so much for that i remember when i wrote my first novel that the law to work lived in a little back work when his personnel manager said in his apartment apartment well you can't expect a writer to work in an office mr harris i want to write and i think you can show me how who knows after you with  steve call me sometime why do we like to know how you're getting on a card you to night after i get the now that i want you to take all the things out of that song and put them into that back you know no no no not for of very gave that to her as a christmas mon dollars for damages to your rent that's more than last month's i bet someone good look why don't you work on the rug and i'll work on your dress why don't you to work on the rug and i'll work on her dress i work on my day i'll work on the kitchen you like odd dogs occasionally is fine we'll have them for lunch and for dinner we'll have a steak lunch dinner but i haven't even been in if you guess what your name stephanie gaylord what are your friends  and he was in the eighth grade and i went to high school he was still in kinda guy and then i studied piano and became a character in every waterbury books and what were you and i was a chorus girl who studied piano and was very bitter about the peculiar i think we've done a good job i had such a job would be like oh today was an unusual but after this will be no more distractions we're going to work in an atmosphere of dignity and c you are i'll have to well you mine till next week you want to wager today well i haven't looked them over yet but i'll give you a call and no more fifty cent that's the boss don't like  where was it you were telling me that everything here was dignified and cultural all year now steve about your other dut so refreshing and when i read your novels but they were filled with such quality and high purpose and i'm afraid all that spoil now no harsh words no hard feelings just are you walking out on all in waterbury don't back the girl or work for me ronnie just call the agency and get another go now you know you don't mean that we both like this one are you going to let me out of here or do i have to call the police there already she's got a lot of talent there i thought you'd think so i was a model back in texas but i came out here for a career daddy's financing me a friend of your know my father keep she's trying to hook a rich man she's insincere and a moron but what's worrying well i'm not so worried about being insincere but as for being a mole ron yeah it'd take a lot of work mrs reeves i haven't even started my novel yet and it doesn't look as if i'm going to have i'm continually interrupted well we'll even let you word oh ronny i'm having a party for fifty guests tonight and i'm expecting you to entertain far is  hello hello steve i couldn't wait for you to call me so i'm calling you i was a job well i have to make an adjustment to know if such an unusual kind of a job i can imagine he he started his novel today interesting story well he didn't get very far into it but i'm sure it's going to be wonderful he seemed so excited about it let's have dinner one  chapter a day that's wow you sure you're not tired this good what you say your name to the telephone i i'm going to the beach with the salt there will be sure you don't bring any home with you right away that's guy someplace nice like santa barbara  don't pay any attention to him he's just trying to make you jealous jealous but what makes you think i'm even interested in him you know for a secretary who has just been given the day off you're awfully annoyed i'd like to ask you a quick yes does mr waterbury intend to write a book that's a very interesting question one a very is a genius what he's doing right now exactly and when we go through a move like this a great book comes out of that he does a lot of writing tonight why honey your general or the i don't even know missed a lot of very disappointed i'm not even sure i want to of course not they can you tell me what i'm doing wrong everything here let me have a to give so many wrinkles in it we tried sixty laundry but he still likes my work best these are good shirts weren't good chairs you know i just thought  i'm going out of my mind was when i went to night school for a whole year to learn to be a writer and here i am doing a guy's laundry oh it's not done yet somebody who's got it's well so far this job has cost me eighty three dollars i don't worry i'll get that back why should you i gambled and i lost well things good for the so we have the three best souls in town it's an insidious thing it changes a person i'm going to target sorry why don't you put a stop to all of this get down to work i guess i'm afraid out dictate this in outline form and then i'll polish it up later yes it's about a very this is the story of a successful novelist who began to be morally and spiritually till a girl came  life and then the whole world seemed changed his senior one night rod delivering a lecture to a short story that there were so many faces looming up in front of him but he saw only one  whose delicate exquisitely beautiful without her knowledge he arranged to make her his secretary because in that fleeting moment in that single instant he knew he was desperately in love with  continue he was tempted to take her up in his arms and sweep it to the summit but he didn't he knew very little about her yet there was nothing else he needed to know and he strode up and down the room dictating he  exalted and inspired he wanted to take her in his arms and smother her with kisses and drowned himself in the beauty of her soul but he was a car how do you like it girl mr waterbury i'm really leaving you this i don't and don't you ever try to get in touch with me again i don't even want my salary check you can say that for the next victim if i ever see one of your books again be nice to me when you use my only means of support he's a little busy my name is devon would you tell him the woman he's interested in got married and the two bucks for the marriage w bertie this is my wife i did it i going to pay you back your money don't worry about that sorry if he has a publisher and he's a man let's get away from here tonight  so i'm tired is that it would be better for both of us about work by myself to give you a chance to work on your own book i finished my book then i'd like to read it it's been on your dressing room table for two weeks when i read it on the train don't bother book doesn't like it i want you to read it and let me know what you think about it i'll try to be as objective as possible you will be i know but i have another manuscript for you mind you finished it yes that it was a hasn't had time he he's been busy writing he couldn't concentrate on and i'll be glad to read both that would be the next point the next one i told the agency to keep sending them until we've said when all i want to do is work i guess the publicity burned his career but he deserved it don't you agree yes i do day off why don't you make it a year but i haven't even begun yet that's all right you get paid just the same all right what time to morrow oh any old time suit yourself but i don't understand john i'm in love with your mother and tomorrow i expect to be john's going to be a father and i'm the first to know i don't have to listen to mo that's what i'd like to know i don't know but don't you i miss waterbury i'm not going to do anything who's calling this is giles harris thinking i'm sorry they got into such a late but i must talk to him they just turned out the light where you keep quiet this is the hut you know she's out for the evening air and i don't know when she'll be back you'll hear me i said they just turned out the lights i was in love with before i met you something in your writing the tone the feeling the quality appear to me so much that i used to imagine your books were written just for me ones the big guy in my family and his novels just been turned down and if this happens on top of that it was just about the story and he has to have a sense of importance and he's lost faith in him you mean your husband would be in a sense of competition with you you don't understand the mcnalley or ones in trouble and this is why i have to help him climb out of that steve i thought you wanted to write more than anything else in the world that's right again john mother i've changed my mind i don't like your sweetheart mother but i like him that's all that matters john as your son i refuse to approve the married mother you're not married him i am how does that sound thanks a man mr hastings i must say you're distracting you know where did you work before i'm just out of secretarial school i think it would be wonderful working for you mr bradbury you see i hope to be a writer myself and have you ever been married oh no never and you're right it doesn't matter anymore getting awfully personal but a wonderful type of charles evers is just like that just like anything else miss yes m you were a man i'd ask you to step outside so my head hit me will be a female that's about all i can say excuse b's and excuse me i didn't mean to disturb you and my secretary your former secretary or i didn't know you were in the middle of dictation you know sarcasm is present called of course i don't have to tell you what i think of a man who anyway you know i always wanted to tell you that i really think you recruit for your motives a very obvious you've given me a lot of grief ever since i married stephanie and i came up in a ten year high to put up your hand to defend yourself like  yes what can i do put you out i said get out but i don't understand not going to listen to it that my wife your his wife i'm trying very desperately not to be didn't you get the divorce papers today you're still my wife until a final agreement that takes a whole