They say great themes make great novels. . . . but what these young writers don't understand is that there is no greater theme than men and women.
Source: On publication of his 35th book; in NY Times, 13 Nov 1967.
-- John O'Hara, (Jan 31 1905-1970), US novelist, short-story writer; His fiction stands as a social history of upwardly mobile Americans from the 1920s-1940s; wrote Appointment at Samarra.