*I have to see a thing a thousand times before I see it once.* [*Thomas Wolfe*](http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7921.Thomas_Wolfe?utm_medium=email&utm_source=quote_of_the_day) July 9, 1937: On this day, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote a letter to Thomas Wolfe, advising his fellow author to write shorter novels. Wolfe responded with a letter eight times as long as Fitzgerald’s.