To Be A Writer Is To Throw

To Be A Writer Is To Sit Down At One's Desk In The Chill Portion Of Every Day, And To Write; Not Waiting For The Little Jet Of The Blue Flame Of Genius To Start From The Breastbone - Just Plain Going At It, In Pain And Delight. To Be A Writer Is To Throw Away A Great Deal, Not To Be Satisfied, To Type Again, And Then Again, And Once More, And Over And Over...

There, In The Tin Factory, In The First Moment Of The Atomic Age, A Human Being Was Crushed By Books.

At Exactly Fifteen Minutes Past Eight In The Morning, On August 6, 1945, Japanese Time, At The Moment When The Atomic Bomb Flashed Above Hiroshima, Miss Toshiko Sasaki, A Clerk In The Personnel Department Of The East Asia Tin Works, Had Just Sat Down At Her Place In The Plant Office And Was Turning Her Head To Speak To The Girl At The Next Desk.

Journalism Allows Its Readers To Witness History; Fiction Gives Its Readers An Opportunity To Live It.

To My Great Surprise, I Never Heard Anyone Cry Out In The Disorder, Even Though They Suffered In Great Agony. They Died In Silence, With No Grudge, Setting Their Teeth To Bear It. All For The Country!