My mother was a singer, and both of her sisters were singers. There was always music around.
“Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them.”
“At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone said silly things, and I said I wanted to be an actress. So that was what I wanted to be, but what I was, of course, was a writer.”