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When I First Wanted To Be A Writer, I Learned To Write Prose By Reading Poetry.

One's Head Is Finite. You Pour More And More Things Into It - Surnames, Chronologies, Affiliations - And It Packs Them Away In Its Tunnels, And Eventually You Find That You Have A Book About Something That You Publish.

Most Writers Are Secretly Worried That They're Not Really Writers. That It's All Been Happenstance, Something Came Together Randomly, The Letters Came Together, And They Won't Coalesce Ever Again.

Churchill Was A Brilliant And Inspiring Rhetorician, But One Of The First Things He Did As The Head Of The British Nation Was To Put German Jews In Jail. Tens Of Thousands Of Jews - Who Had Just Been Fortunate Enough To Get Out From Under Hitler Only A Few Years Before - Spent The Entire War In Jail.

Some After-the-fact Storytelling Is Inevitable, And, In Fact, Very Good And Useful. But Then We Want Always To Be Able To Enrich The Stories, Or Maybe Change The Stories With A Fresh Infusion Of Specificity.