WRITERS ON WRITING (INTRO DARNTON)

"In a time when everything around me seemed completely out of control, when lives were being cut short and fate seemed especially cruel, I had the need to get to an ending of something. I was desperate to know how things turned out, in fiction if not in life. More than ever, more than anything, I was a writer." --Alice Hoffman, fromWriters on Writing "The trial lawyer's job and the novelist's were, in some aspects, shockingly similar. Both involved the reconstruction of experience, usually through many voices. . . . But there the paths deviated. In this arena the universal trumped; there were no prizes for being rarefied or ahead of the times. The trial lawyer who lost the audience also inevitably lost the case." --Scott Turow, fromWriters on WritingNew York Times Staff is the author of 'WRITERS ON WRITING (INTRO DARNTON)' with ISBN 9780805067415 and ISBN 0805067418.