Much More Than Memoir; It's

You Go Out Into The World, You Read Everything You Can Read, You Imitate The Things You Love, And You Learn How Hard It Is To Do. Eventually, You Learn Your Own Vision Of The World, You Learn Your Own Voice And How To Hear It, And You Learn To Write Your Own Work. Writers Today Have As Many Opportunities As My Generation Did, But They Don't See The Examples As Clearly As We Did.

Choose Your Agent As Carefully As You Would Choose Your Accountant Or Lawyer. Or Dentist.

The Issue Of Torture, Connected To American Soldiers, Is Not Somewhere Most People Want To Linger. We May Not Want To Confront This Issue So Much In The U.s. Because Of How We Want To Think About Our Veterans. There's The Sense That We Want To Think Of Our Veterans As - If They're Damaged, Damaged By Something Glamorous, Like A Firefight.

Loyalty Is Weird, It Kicks In When You Dont Expect It And The People Who Deserve Loyalty Least Seem To Get It The Most.

There Is A Wonderful Intelligence To The Unconscious. It’s Always Smarter Than We Are.