Challenge for Garson, Stephen, and Others (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Victor Steinbok]

I only had a few minutes and used some very simple search patterns.
Gallico's piece would not have come up in the search I used. I posted
what amounted to an intermediate result and haven't had a chance to
extend it. So this find is all your, Garson. I have not ruled it out at
any time because I have not come across it.

     VS-)

On 3/3/2011 5:13 PM, Garson O'Toole wrote:
> Wonderful work, Bill and Victor. Great citations!
>
> Google Books has a match in a book that it dates to 1946 but it is
> suspicious. Maybe Bill or Victor have already ruled it out. The match
> is supposedly on page 576, the last page.
>
> Cite: Confessions of a Story Writer by Paul Gallico, Page 576, A. A.
> Knopf, New York.  (Google Books snippet view; Not verified on paper;
> Susipicious; WorldCat  agrees with the date of publication)
>
> It is only when you open your veins and bleed onto the page a little
> that you establish contact with your reader. If you do not believe in
> the characters or the story you are doing at that moment with all your
> mind, strength, and will, ...
>
> There is a match in a 1951 book with the same text.
>
> A Reader for Writers by William Targ - 1951 - 322 pages - Snippet view
> It is only when you open your veins and bleed onto the page a little
> that you establish contact with your reader. If you do not believe in
> the characters or the story you are doing at that moment with all your
> mind, strength, and will, ...
>
> This 1951 book appears to have a section about Gallico so it is
> possible that the text is being reprinted.
>
> Garson

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