Thorne Smith — American Writer born on March 27, 1892, died on June 21, 1934

James Thorne Smith, Jr. was an American writer of humorous supernatural fantasy fiction under the byline Thorne Smith. He is best known today for the two Topper novels, comic fantasy fiction involving sex, much drinking and supernatural transformations. With racy illustrations, these sold millions of copies in the 1930s and were equally popular in paperbacks of the 1950s... (wikipedia)

Quite casually I wander into my plot, poke around with my characters for a while, then amble off, leaving no moral proved and no reader improved.
Like life itself my stories have no point and get absolutely nowhere.
Without so much as turning a hair I freely admit that I am one of America's greatest realists.