Grief, When It Comes, Is Nothing Like

I Can't Imagine Writing If I Didn't Have A Reader. Any More Than An Actor Can Imagine Acting Without An Audience.

Writing Nonfiction Is More Like Sculpture, A Matter Of Shaping The Research Into The Finished Thing.

That Was The Year, My Twenty-eighth, When I Was Discovering That Not All Of The Promises Would Be Kept, That Some Things Are In Fact Irrevocable And That It Had Counted After All, Every Evasion And Every Procrastination, Every Mistake, Every Word, All Of It.

Of Course, You Always Think About How It Will Be Read. I Always Aim For A Reading In One Sitting.

New York Was No Mere City. It Was Instead An Infinitely Romantic Notion.