- Mama
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Desire
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- Nov 07, 2020
I suppose the desire to go to town helped make me ambitious, and the allure of the worlds that came in over the radio also helped. But the rewards of growing up on a farm were far greater in many ways than life in town.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of the time I was in the Northeast, I lived in the country, and I think that helped me to discover my material for writing.
- Farm
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- Nov 07, 2020
I lived on the farm with my parents and grandparents. I had no playmates as a young child, and I was indulged. I helped my grandmother piece quilts, and we made pretty albums, an old-fashioned pastime. We cut poems and pictures out of magazines.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I rejected the traditional notion of 'women's work,' but I never thought of my early ambitions in a feminist way, exactly. Primarily I rebelled against apathy and limited education. I was rejecting a whole way of life that I thought trapped everyone.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I often say flippantly that the short story is... shorter; you can be done with it more easily. It's much less of a commitment of time and energy than a big project like a novel or long nonfiction book.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing about where I was from and the people I knew was not something that would have occurred to me early on, because like so many Southerners of that period - the Sixties - I rejected those things when I went north.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to play with words and the sounds of words - that's extremely important to me.
- Mystery
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the early Seventies, I started writing a little autobiographical novel about my childhood - I made it into a mystery story.
- Farm
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was growing up on our 53-acre dairy farm, we were obsessed with food; it was the center of our lives. We planted it, grew it, harvested it, peeled it, cooked it, served it, consumed it - endlessly, day after day, season after season.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
Working with food was fraught with anxiety when I was a girl. Like all farmers, we were at the mercy of the weather, and we lived in fear of crop failure.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because we lived only a mile outside the town of Mayfield, I was acutely conscious of being country. I felt inferior to people in town because we had to grow our food and make our clothes.
- Handling
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- Nov 07, 2020
During the Cold War, workers proudly contributed to national defense, but the carelessness and haste in handling toxic waste created a nightmare of pollution for subsequent generations.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Physicists must feel they are in the most exciting field in the world. Their minds must be afire.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have heard from many readers since 'The Girl in the Blue Beret' came out. The story of my airline pilot, former B-17 bomber pilot Marshall Stone, on his search to find the people who helped him during World War II has struck a chord.
- American
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since 'Huckleberry Finn,' or thereabouts, it seemed that all American literature was about the alienated hero.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020