The deadlines are much, much longer with books. When I was a reporter, a lot of times I'd come in at 8:30 a.m., get an assignment right away, interview somebody, turn the story in by 9:30, and have the finished story in the paper that landed on my desk by noon.
“At the ballet, you really feel like you're in the presence of something outside the rest of your life. Higher than the rest of your life.”
“An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.”