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• ‟ I suppose the desire to go to town helped make me ambitious, and the allure of the worlds that came in over the radio also helped. But the rewards of growing up on a farm were far greater in many ways than life in town.

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• ‟ Most of the time I was in the Northeast, I lived in the country, and I think that helped me to discover my material for writing.

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• ‟ Writing about where I was from and the people I knew was not something that would have occurred to me early on, because like so many Southerners of that period - the Sixties - I rejected those things when I went north.

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• ‟ I like to play with words and the sounds of words - that's extremely important to me.

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• ‟ Some people will stay at home and be content there. Others are born to run. It's that conflict that fascinates me.

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• ‟ It was important for me to understand who I am and where I came from. To get a hold on why I do certain things.

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• ‟ I was too shy to do anything but read, but there was nobody to tell me what to read.

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• ‟ My father-in-law, Barney Rawlings, spent a couple of months hiding out in France in 1944, frantically memorizing a few French words to pass himself off as a Frenchman, but his ordeal had not inspired in me any action until I started taking a French class.

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• ‟ I read many riveting escape-and-evade accounts of airmen and of the Resistance networks organized to hide them and then send them on grueling treks across the Pyrenees to safety. But it was the people I met in France and Belgium who made the period come alive for me. They had lived it.

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