Writing Nonfiction Is More Like Sculpture, A

I Think We Are Well Advised To Keep On Nodding Terms With The People We Used To Be, Whether We Find Them Attractive Company Or Not. Otherwise They Turn Up Unannounced And Surprise Us, Come Hammering On The Mind's Door At 4 A.m. Of A Bad Night And Demand To Know Who Deserted Them, Who Betrayed Them, Who Is Going To Make Amends.

Let Me Just Be In The Ground. Let Me Just Be In The Ground And Go To Sleep.

Tuesday, September 11, 2001, Dawned Temperate And Nearly Cloudless In The Eastern United States.

Memory Fades, Memory Adjusts, Memory Conforms To What We Think We Remember.

I Didn’t Like It [computer] When I First Began Using It. Where It’s Helped Me A Lot Is In Nonfiction Which Is A Kind Of Different Process. You’ve Got Research, You’ve Got Your Notes, You Can Block Out What You Want To Work On For The Next 10 Pages And Put It In Another File, And Then You Can Kind Of Carve It Into Shape