 But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me. |
| The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn't want to. So, it isn't the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I'm pleased with it anyway. |
| I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years I had do other things. |
| Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it. |
| This flattery has been rather slow in coming. I think all of sudden late in life now I'm getting some credit for what I've done. Which is gratifying, but it's kind of a little late. |
| I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell. |
| I thought that automobiles were going to have mufflers and go fast and airplanes were going to fly fast. |
| I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all. |
| I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to. |
| But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction. |
