If You Want To Study Writing, Read

A Combination Of All That Was Best In The Gladdest Days Of The Departing Year.

I've Never Shown Anybody A Draft Of Anything.

I Took Five Years On The First Volume, Five Years On The Second Volume, And Ten Years On The Third Volume.

Most Of My Inspiration, If That's The Word, Came From Books Themselves.

When You Grow Up In A Totally Segregated Society, Where Everybody Around You Believes That Segregation Is Proper, You Have A Hard Time. You Can't Believe How Much It's A Part Of Your Thinking.