“[W]riting has always seemed to me a fight against
loss, an instinct for replay; a resistance to the attrition of memory. To
translate lived experience into a pattern of words that preserves its vitality
without fixing it in literary embalming fluid; that for me has been the main
thing.”—Historian Simon Schama, “Why I Write,” The Financial Times,
September 15, 2012
(Photograph of
Simon Schama at Strand Book Store, New York City. taken August 15, 2006, by
David Shankbone)
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