To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.

Most critics were scornful of his novels' flat prose and pedestrian characters. Irving Wallace (March 19 1916 – June 29 1990) was an American best-selling author and screenwriter. One critic described him "as the most successful of all the many exponents of junk fiction perhaps because he took it all so seriously not to say lugubriously".