in California I began to think that, except on the beaches, no-one had the use of their legs.
You can be a nuisance to your family. You mustn't be a nuisance to your friends.
It is an anxious, sometimes a dangerous thing to be a doll. Dolls cannot choose; they can only be chosen; they cannot 'do'; they can only be done by.
Every time a child, any child, is born, it is new - and different; that is the wonder.
For an author nothing is as dead as a book once it is written.
Of course one never knows in draft if it's going to turn out, even with my age and experience.