The view after 70 is breathtaking. What is lacking is someone, anyone, of the older generation to whom you can turn when you want to satisfy your curiosity about some detail of the landscape of the past. There is no longer any older generation. You have become it, while your mind was mostly on other matters.

The view after 70 is breathtaking. What is lacking is someone, anyone, of the older generation to whom you can turn when you want to satisfy your curiosity about some detail of the landscape of the past. There is no longer any older generation. You have become it, while your mind was mostly on other matters.

William Maxwell

Perhaps a body of work isn't necessary for a short story writer. If you do one story that survives in an anthology, that's enough.

William Maxwell

If you turn the imagination loose like a hunting dog, it will often return with the bird in its mouth.

William Maxwell