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Growing Up Is A Ritual, More Deadly Than Religion, More Complicated Than Baseball, For There Seem To Be No Rules. Everything Is Experienced For The First Time.

I Can Still Put Down Some Pretty Nasty Stuff On Paper, Which Is What I Enjoy Doing.

Most People Write A Lot Of Autobiography, But When I Came To Write Autobiography I Discovered That Nothing Interesting Had Ever Happened To Me. So I Had To Take The Situation And Invent Stories To Go With It.

1946, If My Memory Is Correct. Harry "the Cat" Brecheen Went Against The Red Sox In Game 7. I Stayed Home To Listen, Practically Had My Head Inside The Radio.

Read! Read! Read! And Then Read Some More. When You Find Something That Thrills You, Take It Apart Paragraph By Paragraph, Line By Line, Word By Word, To See What Made It So Wonderful. Then Use Those Tricks Next Time You Write.