I Have A Painter's Memory. I Can

When I Begin A Story At My Desk, The Window To My Back, The Path Is Not There. As I Start To Walk, I Make The Path.

In My Early Twenties, That's When I Really Began To Write. Before That, I Was Too Busy Working, Keeping Myself Going.

We Are, In This Country, More Open To New Ideas. But We Are Also, It Seems To Me, More Inclined To Hail The New As Absolute Truth - Until The Next New Comes Along.

My First Job Was Working In A Dress Shop In Los Angeles In 1940, For $7 A Week.

Literature Is The Province Of Imagination, And Stories, In Whatever Guise, Are Meditations On Life.