“Only enemies speak the truth friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.”
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I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time.
I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody.
We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.
I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.
