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CALISHER
I used to think I lacked confidence. Now I think I knew I had nothing much yet to write about. Or not perspective enough to know what was there.
INTERVIEWER
Your family?
CALISHER
I couldn’t write those first stories about them until they were all dead. That’s when I began.
INTERVIEWER
It was an unusual family.
CALISHER
Well, I’d paraphrase Tolstoy: all families are. All people too, probably; all places. That’s in part what sends me to writing stories—to balance out the usual and the unusual in the life I see. And I think many writers begin to remember while very young.
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