Basketball is the worst sport. They need to raise the basket at least two feet.
[I had ] uneventful, though isolated childhood. Good, kind, stable parents.
My dad talked a good game. [I'm as a] child got only the World Series on the radio.
Discovered W. Somerset Maugham in about 5th grade. Didn't understand the plots, but loved the descriptions.
Read! Read! Read! And then read some more. When you find something that thrills you, take it apart paragraph by paragraph, line by line, word by word, to see what made it so wonderful. Then use those tricks next time you write.
Any game becomes important when you know and love the players.