But I can't bear it when somebody who some man made a pass at - to call that violence seems to me absurd and insulting to women who've really met violence, who've been raped or bashed.
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Nationality: Australian Type: Novelist Born: November 7, 1942 |
I just felt all along that if I could get a certain amount of years in the league, have great years and still have my health when I walked away, that would be great.
I had the notion that I wanted to write the great dirty American novel, so I went to Roanoke College on the GI Bill.

