I Think It's Important To Remember 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.

The Most Interesting People Are Never Perfect.

There Is A Human Longing To Go Back To Other Times. We All Know How When We Were Children We Asked Our Parents, "what Was It Like When You Were A Kid?" I Think It Probably Has Something To Do With Our Survival As A Species.

Each Generation, We Peel Back Biases That Have Blinded Those Before Us. The More We Know About The Past Enables Us To Ask Richer And More Provocative Questions About Who We Are Today.

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.