Epigraph: I was always writing, you know, poetry and stories [...] [W]hen I was a child I attempted to write more often than I attempted anyting else. It was my strongest intention, my strongest desire'
(J. Ellison, 'Interview with Jessica Anderson', in Rooms of Their Own, Ringwood, Penguin, 1986, p 45)
'If I do feel out of place I no longer care enough to make the statement. Perhaps I should put it like that'
(J. Ellison, 'Interview with Jessica Anderson', in Rooms of Their Own, Ringwood, Penguin, 1986, p 34)