A Mistake Made With Good In Your

A Mistake Made With Good In Your Heart Is Still A Mistake, But It Is One For Which You Must Forgive Yourself.

What I Like Most: Reading Well-written Sources That Take Me To Another World For Hours At A Time - And Being Able To Call That Work! Also, Of Course, Finding A Gem Of Information That Is Either Exactly What I Was Looking For, Or Else Fits Perfectly Into The Story In Some Way.

Most Writers Adore Their Editors, And I'm No Exception.

With A Book Called 'keeping Score,' I Really Did Want To Write A Book About The Korean War, Because I Felt That It Is The Least Understood War In The American Cultural Imagination. So I Set Out With The Idea That Americans Didn't Know Much About The Korean War And That I Was Going To Try To Fix A Tiny Bit Of That.

God Bless Interlibrary Loan. I Pay A Lot Of Library Fines. In The Case Of 'a Single Shard,' I Was Using Books That Hadn't Been Checked Out In 30 Years, So I Didn't Feel Too Bad.