“I have discovered only two writers whom I can take all the way, or at least nearly so; and those are Scott Fitzgerald and Tom Wolfe. I think Hemingway is confused on lots of things, just as I think the Fountainhead was confused; but I also think both are magnificently right in many things.)”

—  James Jones

Letter to Maxwell Perkins (21 October 1946); p. 77
To Reach Eternity (1989)

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