The Book Really Comes To

You Cannot Observe People Through An Ideology. Your Ideology Observes For You.

The Terror Of The Unforeseen Is What The Science Of History Hides, Turning A Disaster Into An Epic.

I Don’t Ask Writers About Their Work Habits. I Really Don’t Care. Joyce Carol Oates Says Somewhere That When Writers Ask Each Other What Time They Start Working And When They Finish And How Much Time They Take For Lunch, They’re Actually Trying To Find Out, "is He As Crazy As I Am?" I Don’t Need That Question Answered.

If You Read A Novel In More Than Two Weeks, You Don't Read The Novel Really.

It Isn't That You Subordinate Your Ideas To The Force Of The Facts In Autobiography But That You Construct A Sequence Of Stories To Bind Up The Facts With A Persuasive Hypothesis That Unravels Your History's Meaning.