A lot of people spent a lot of time and worked very, very hard. I think it's excellent because the library is the anchor of the community. |
After I got sick and beat it I decided I was going to write because that is what I really wanted to do. |
I didn't write the book in sequence. If I got stuck I started a new chapter. I didn't know where it was going, but eventually I figured it out, |
I focused on the stories of individual people rather than making this a kind of polemic, |
I forced myself to write every day, seven days a week for as much time as I could spare, |
I really feel like the dark side of the '60s began in that period, ... I wanted to explore that and show how that might have affected individuals, or how individuals had their lives changed by that shift. ... I do feel that a lot of the promise of the '60s was not only unfulfilled, but broken. |
I was 12 in 1968. From a serious kid's vantage point this was a terrifying time to grow up, |
I worked on inventing their connection and how the 60s influenced their lives. It helps that I've always been an extravagant liar, |
It made a mockery of everything that came before ideologically. There was no message to their actions. |
Someone didn't take their slot and the director called me and asked me to join. I had the feeling that this was my shot. When I overcame my feelings of inferiority I realized that this was a gift, |
That was the start of an incredible year, |
They're all important. Without all of them, we couldn't be able to perform like we do. |
We do look and see how the company did, the longevity of the employee and their performance. |
We try to budget at least as much as we've paid the prior year. |
When I realized when (Stardust) was born, that sort of ignited an interest I had in the late '60s, ... I've had it all my life, having just missed that period. |