And There Are People Who Want To

And There Are People Who Want To Be Writers Because They Love To Write. And They Care.

We Are Not Buried In History, But Surrounded By It. You Can't Avoid Our Behavior Being Shaped By It, To A Considerable Degree. We Have This Fantasy That We Are Free Of History. This Allows Us Not To See The Circumstances, The Historical Circumstances Of Other People.

If You Dedicate Your Attention To Discipline In Your Life You Become Smarter While You Are Writing Than While You Are Hanging Out With Your Pals Or In Any Other Line Of Work.

Luck Can't Last A Lifetime Unless You Die Young.

Lists Of Books We Reread And Books We Can't Finish Tell More About Us Than About The Relative Worth Of The Books Themselves.