Representative of American folk traditions about butterfat is this passage from «Neighbor Rosicky», by American
author Willa Cather: [The Rosickys] had been at one accord not to hurry through life, not to be
always skimping and saving.
It seems to me that in decades past, an
author interview almost
always included some story of the writer's closeness to either an editor, an agent, or both — patience worn thin, arguments that broke through to epiphanies, real influence on the work by these
representatives, whose business, then, lay so much closer to the writing, itself.