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When I Was About Twenty-one, I Published A Few Poems. Maybe I Wrote A Couple Of Stories Before, But I Really Began To Write Stories In My Mid-thirties. My Kids Were Still Little, And They Were In School And Day Care, And I Had Begun To Think A Lot About Wanting To Tell Some Stories And Not Being Able To Do It In Poetry.

All That Is Really Necessary For Survival Of The Fittest, It Seems, Is An Interest In Life, Good, Bad Or Peculiar.

There Is A Long Time In Me Between Knowing And Telling.

I Am Very Interested In People Trying To Write Because I Don't Have A Big Academic Background At All.

Let Us Go Forth With Fear And Courage And Rage To Save The World.