It's funny - writing the afterword required a lot of digging and research, and was ultimately harder than editing the actual novel,

There's a funny thing to when you're writing something that's not quite yours. You feel unburdened. There's a strange liberty to it, although I was still trying to be faithful to them.

It's funny that this research got started by something we didn't see.

Reviewing music or reviewing anything is a writing job. It's nice if you are experienced in the field you are writing about, but writing is what you are doing.

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write: a man will turn over half a library to make one book.

Maybe it’s like this, Max--you know how, when you are working on a long and ordered piece, all sorts of bright and lovely ideas and images intrude. They have no place in what you are writing, and so if you are young, you write them in a notebook for future use. And you never use them because they are sparkling and alive like colored pebbles on a wave-washed shore. It’s impossible not to fill your pockets with them. But when you get home, they are dry and colorless. I’d like to pin down a few while they are still wet.