I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt.
“I made records in the past that are as traditional as any other country records that have been made, but at the same time the records have a contemporary slant on it too.”
“But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may not be aware of this till she is pretty far along with it.”