- I actually frightened myself while typing the scene in "Pull Down Your Blinds" where a raccoon pops out from inside the open belly of the corpse of the protagonist's wife. I pushed my typewriter away in disgust and endured nightmares of that scene for some time.
- I was a precocious child. At ten years of age, I set out to type an original Jazz Age novel loosely inspired by F. Scott Fitzgerald. After typing about a hundred pages or so on my old fashioned typewriter, I determined that the story did not fulfill my artistic vision, and I dramatically tossed the papers into a burning fireplace.
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