Crane pushed himself to write feverishly during the first months at Brede; he told his publisher that he was "doing more work now than I have at any other period in my life".
Crane obrigouse a si mesmo a escribir de forma febril durante os primeiros meses que pasaron en Brede, chegando a dicirlle ó seu publicador que estaba "facendo máis traballo agora do que fixen en ningún outro período da miña vida".