Autograph questionnaire response signed with initials, [1969-1970].

Saying, in response to several questions, "All American writers get too much attention...All writers currently visible seem at this moment to be exceedingly dull. But maybe that will change...An American writer of narrative power? You're being silly...Experiments are compelling when they succeed. Any experimental writer fails - when he fails, he is fraudulent in effect. As for his motives, they hardly matter. But there is no genuinely experimental American writer;" naming three writers he would most like to have as neighbors "Salinger because he is silent, MFK Fisher because she cooks well, Oates looks pretty in her photographs."