The Women's Movement Was Coming,

Art Is Too Long, And Life Is Too Short.

We Write About What We Don't Know About What We Know.

When I Was About Twenty-one, I Published A Few Poems. Maybe I Wrote A Couple Of Stories Before, But I Really Began To Write Stories In My Mid-thirties. My Kids Were Still Little, And They Were In School And Day Care, And I Had Begun To Think A Lot About Wanting To Tell Some Stories And Not Being Able To Do It In Poetry.

I Didn't Write Any Fiction Until I Was Past Thirty.

I've Started Many Novels, And They All Ended On Page Seven.