There Is Only One Person Who Can

First Of All, You Can Make The Argument That There's No Such Thing As The Past. Nobody Lived In The Past.

I'm Very Aware How Many Distractions The Reader Has In Life Today, How Many Good Reasons There Are To Put The Book Down.

There Are Innumerable Writing Problems In An Extended Work. One Book Took A Little More Than Six Years. You, The Writer, Change In Six Years. The Life Around You Changes. Your Family Changes. They Grow Up. They Move Away. The World Is Changing. You're Also Learning More About The Subject. By The Time You're Writing The Last Chapters Of The Book, You Know Much More Than You Did When You Started At The Beginning.

In Time I Began To Understand That It's When You Start Writing That You Really Find Out What You Don't Know And Need To Know.

...had Proven Himself A Leader Of Remarkable Ability, A Man Not Only Of Enterprising Ideas, But With The Staying Power To Carry Them Out.