"They were as real as Sara, and it was careless of them not to come out of the story shadowland and say, "Here I am -- tell about me." But they did not -- which was their fault and not mine. People who live in the story one is writing ought to come forward at the beginning and tap the writing person on the shoulder and say, "Hallo, what about me?" If they don't, no one can be blamed but themselves and their slouching, idle ways."