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" may refer to:
*William Maxwell (physician) (1620–1647), Scottish physician
*William Maxwell, 5th Earl of Nithsdale (1676–1744), Catholic nobleman
*William Maxwell (Continental Army general) (1733–1796), Irish-born American soldier from New Jersey in the American Revolutionary War
*Sir William Maxwell, 5th Baronet, of Monreith, British MP for Wigtownshire (UK Parliament constituency)/Wigtownshire, 1805–1812 and 1822–1830
*General Sir William Maxwell, 7th Baronet of Calderwood (1754–1837)
*William Maxwell (engraver) (c. 1766–1809), printer of the Sentinel of the Northwest Territory newspaper in Cincinnati, Ohio
*William Maxwell (educator) (1784–1857), seventh President of Hampden–Sydney College
*William Maxwell (railroad executive), president of the Erie Railroad, 1842–1843
*William Maxwell (journalist) (died 1928), British journalist, soldier, writer and civil servant
*William Maxwell (footballer) (1876–1940), manager of the Belgian national football team
*William Babington Maxwell (1866–1938), British novelist
*William George Maxwell (1871–1959), British naturalist and colonial administrator in British Malaya and Straits Settlements
*William Hamilton Maxwell (1792–1850), Scots-Irish novelist
More William Maxwell on Wikipedia.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.
My wife has to tell me I haven't said anything all day. I've stopped talking, and I'm totally unaware of it.
I have liked remembering almost as much as I have liked living.
If you turn the imagination loose like a hunting dog, it will often return with the bird in its mouth.
Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.
My interest in literature hasn't decreased. It just gets more passionate, actually.
No directions came with this idea.
It was lovely when you found students who responded to things you were enthusiastic about.
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