A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew.
I think of novels in architectural terms. You have to enter at the gate and...
It evolved from my experience in the fifties growing up during the McCarthy...
When you're a houseguest and you leave it's nice to straighten something up or send your hosts a useful gift. And when you leave the planet it's nice to have made a positive contribution.
