I decided early on that I wanted to participate in the greater American experience, rather than the parochial one in Mississippi. But I have an urge as a writer to meld the Southern experience into the larger American one.
“I was a girl from Massapequa, New York. I grew up in Massapequa. I lived in a basement with one window.”
“The future will be determined in part by happenings that it is impossible to foresee; it will also be influenced by trends that are now existent and observable.”