We Set This House On Fire Forgetting

I See More Genuine Sociability Between The Races In Mississippi Than I See In Michigan. No Question.

Dad Said I Would Always Be "high Minded And Low Waged" From Reading Too Much Ralph Waldo Emerson. Maybe He Was Right.

I Did Not Want To Live Out My Life In The Strenuous Effort To Hold A Ghost World Together. It Was Plain As The Stars That Time Herself Moved In Grand Tidal Sweeps Rather Than The Tick-tocks We Suffocate Within, And That I Must Reshape Myself To Fully Inhabit The Earth Rather Than Dawdle In The Sump Of My Foibles.

Writing As A Woman Presents Enormous Problems But I Have Attempted It Several Times And Haven't Had Many Complaints.

I Write Novellas Because I Don't Like Loose Sprawling Prose.