“He has almost no sense of time, and therefore a schedule is a thing that never could exist for him. He has frequently been two hours late for an appointment with his editor, and it is doubtful if he has ever been on time. The dimensions of everything, physical and abstract, are too small for him.” —Maxwell Perkins on Thomas Wolfe, from “Answers to A Query.”

Photography Credit Carl Van Vechten, 1937, Van Vechten Collection, Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress. (via)

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