How Do You Write About a Person?

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When you start looking into someone's past and where they came from, that you can kind of infinitely zoom in on every fact that that led this person to who they became. When i'm writing things down in a note card, already a selection process has gone on. And even after i've got all these no cards, a lot of em are never going to be used, but they were potential colors on the palete. You kno, that last moment of discretion, before you know, youu put those cards back in the box as you know,. dowe want to know that she losing her figure and running around the amoc, the candahar compound to try to keep her

Lawrence Wright is an author, screenwriter, playwright, and a staff writer for The New Yorker.

”There’s nothing more important about a person than their story. In a way, that’s who we are. And yet, memories fade and people die. So those stories disappear and the job of the journalist is to go out before that happens and accumulate the kinds of stories that are going to help us understand who we are, why we are, where we are right now in time, and try to thread those stories into a coherent narrative. In a way, you give it a kind of immortality. And that’s a big job. It’s a great privilege.”

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