“For me the idea of writing not for publication is a little like drinking alone. To me, drinking is sort of a social experience. Writing is like coming home from a great trip and sitting around a dinner table and saying, I’ve got to tell you about this.”

— Susan Orlean in Jon Meacham’s Author’s Roundtable in Newsweek.

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