To Write Is To Think,

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.

To Shut Yourself From History Is To Shut Yourself Off From Say Music Or Painting Or The Theatre, Literature For The Rest Of Your Life. It Would Be To Cheat Yourself Of The Pleasures Of Life.

One Of The Things About The Arts That Is So Important Is That In The Arts You Discover The Only Way To Learn How To Do It Is By Doing It. You Can't Write By Reading A Book About It. The Only Way To Learn How To Write A Book Is To Sit Down And Try To Write A Book

Any Nation That Expects To Be Ignorant And Free," Jefferson Said, "expects What Never Was And Never Will Be." And If The Gap Between The Educated And The Uneducated In America Continues To Grow As It Is In Our Time, As Fast As Or Faster Than The Gap Between The Rich And The Poor, The Gap Between The Educated And The Uneducated Is Going To Be Of Greater Consequence And The More Serious Threat To Our Way Of Life. We Must Not, By Any Means, Misunderstand That.

My Strong Feeling Is That We Must Learn More About How We Learn. I'm Convinced That We Learn By Struggling To Find The Solution To A Problem On Our Own With Some Guidance, But Getting In And Getting Our Hands Dirty And Working It.