It Was A Day And Age That

And Read… Read All The Time… Read As A Matter Of Principle, As A Matter Of Self-respect. Read As A Nourishing Staple Of Life.

I Write On The Typewriter. I Like It Because I Like The Feeling Of Making Something With My Hands. I Like Pressing The Key And A Letter Comes Up And Is Printed On A Piece Of Paper. I Can Understand That.

There Are Innumerable Writing Problems In An Extended Work. One Book Took A Little More Than Six Years. You, The Writer, Change In Six Years. The Life Around You Changes. Your Family Changes. They Grow Up. They Move Away. The World Is Changing. You're Also Learning More About The Subject. By The Time You're Writing The Last Chapters Of The Book, You Know Much More Than You Did When You Started At The Beginning.

To Me History Ought To Be A Source Of Pleasure. It Isn't Just Part Of Our Civic Responsibility. To Me It's An Enlargement Of The Experience Of Being Alive, Just The Way Literature Or Art Or Music Is.

How Can We Know Who We Are And Where We Are Going If We Don't Know Anything About Where We Have Come From And What We Have Been Through, The Courage Shown, The Costs Paid, To Be Where We Are?