Today Is The Yesterday You Won't Remember

I Imagine A Child. That Child Is Me. I Can Reconstruct And Vividly Remember Portions Of My Own Childhood. I Can See, Taste, Smell, Feel, And Hear Them. Then What I Do Is, Not Write About That Kid Or About His World, But Start To Think Of A Book That Would Have Pleased Him.

I Believe It Is Impossible To Make Sense Of Life In This World Except Through Art.

I'd Always Liked To Write, But I Never Wanted To Be A Writer, Because It Seemed A Sissy Occupation. It Is. To This Day, I Find It Terribly Easy. And So, Rather Than Trying To Hunt Up A Text, I Just Wrote One.

Children Make Better Readers Than Adults. They Read As Carefully As I Write; Adults Read As A Means Of Getting Off To Sleep. I Get Letters Saying 'i Have Read Your Book Seventeen Times.' If You're An Adult Novelist And You Get That Letter, You Should Be Afraid. You're Being Stalked. Kids Always Read Them Seventeen Times!

I Sort Of Always Like To Write Starting With When I Learned How.