We Must Not Think Of Learning As

You Can't Love What You Don't Know Much About. You Can't Convince, Stimulate, Hold The Attention, Teach, If You Don't Know What You're Talking About.

I Often Think Of That When I Hear People Say That They Haven't Time To Read.

The Title Always Comes Last. What I Really Work Hard On Is The Beginning. Where Do You Begin? In What Tone Do You Begin? I Almost Have To Have A Scene In My Mind.

You Have To Get Inside The People You Are Writing About. You Have To Go Below The Surface. And That's To A Very Large Degree What All Writers Are Doing - They're Trying To Get Below The Surface. Whether It's In Fiction Or Poetry Or Writing History And Biography. Some People Make That Possible Because They Write Wonderful Letters And Diaries. And You Have To Sort Of Go Where The Material Is.

We Should Draw On Our Story, We Should Draw On Our History. If We Don't Know Who We Are, If We Don't Know How We Became What We Are, We're Going To Start Suffering From All The Obvious Detrimental Effects Of Amnesia.