Johnny Panic and the Bible of DreamsSylvia Plath commented in her journals: 'For me, writing verse is an evasion of the real job of writing'. From her mid teens she wrote stories, at first easily and successfully, but then with increasing difficulty as the demands of her real vision complicated her growing ambition to make a career as a conventional story writer. When the first edition of Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams appeared, Margaret Walters said of it in the Guardian: '. the