If You Want To Study Writing, Read

The Point I Would Make Is That The Novelist And The Historian Are Seeking The Same Thing: The Truth – Not A Different Truth: The Same Truth – Only They Reach It, Or Try To Reach It, By Different Routes. Whether The Event Took Place In A World Now Gone To Dust, Preserved By Documents And Evaluated By Scholarship, Or In The Imagination, Preserved By Memory And Distilled By The Creative Process, They Both Want To Tell Us How It Was: To Re-create It, By Their Separate Methods, And Make It Live Again In The World Around Them.

Writing Is Very Hard Work And Knowing What You're Doing The Whole Time.

A Fact Is Not A Truth Until You Love It.

I've Never Shown Anybody A Draft Of Anything.

I Never Cared What Kind Of Grade I Got.