Speculation Can Be More Gentle,

That's Something I Think Is Growing On Me As I Get Older: Happy Endings.

You Cannot Let Your Parents Anywhere Near Your Real Humiliations.

For Years And Years I Thought That Stories Were Just Practice, Till I Got Time To Write A Novel.

In Your Life There Are A Few Places, Or Maybe Only The One Place, Where Something Happened, And Then There Are All The Other Places.

Sometimes I Get The Start Of A Story From A Memory, An Anecdote, But That Gets Lost And Is Usually Unrecognizable In The Final Story.