I Wanted To Be A Ballerina. I

I Read My Books Aloud Before They Were Published.

I Had A Bad Time In School In The First Grade. Because I Had Been A Rather Lonely Child On A Farm, But I Was Free And Wild And To Be Shut Up In A Classroom - There Were 40 Children On Those Days In The Classroom, And It Was Quite A Shock.

In Seventh Grade...i Found A Place On The [library]shelf Where My Book Would Be If I Ever Wrote A Book, Which I Doubted.

In My Grammar School Years Back In The 1920s I Used My Ten-cents-a-week Allowance For Saturday Matinees Of Douglas Fairbanks Movies. All That Swashbuckling And Leaping About In The Midst Of The Sails Of Ships!

As A Child, I Disliked Books In Which Children Learned To Be 'better' Children.