Writing A Novel Is Like Driving A

A Book Begins As A Private Excitement Of The Mind.

My Memories Pale As I Prevail Upon Them Again And Again. They Become More And More Ghostly. I Fear Nothing So Much As Losing Them Altogether And Having Only My Blank Endless Mind To Live In.

And So Do People Pass Out Of One's Life And All You Can Remember Of Them Is Their Humanity, A Poor Fitful Thing Of No Dominion, Like Your Own.

I Am Led To The Proposition That There Is No Fiction Or Nonfiction As We Commonly Understand The Distinction: There Is Only Narrative.

History Is The Present. That's Why Every Generation Writes It Anew. But What Most People Think Of As History Is Its End Product, Myth.