I was also an early writer, and when I began to write, at about the age of seven, stories in pencil with crayon illustrations that my poor mother was obligated to read, I wrote exactly the kinds of stories I was reading: All my characters were white and blue-eyed, they played in the snow, they ate apples, and they talked a lot about the weather, how lovely it was that the sun had come out.
또한 어렸을 때부터 글을 쓰기도 했죠. 7살 즈음부터 글을 쓰기 시작했어요. 연필로 글을 쓰고 크레파스로 그림을 그리고서 어머니에게 늘 제 작품을 읽으라고 강요하곤 했죠. 전 제가 읽었던 이야기와 비슷한 이야기를 썼습니다. 주인공들은 모두 파란눈에 백인들이며 눈 위에서 놀고 사과도 먹었습니다. 또 날씨에 관한 이야기를 많이 했었죠. 해가 나와서 너무나 아름다운 날씨라고 말이죠.