61.   He reaches out to readers with a participatory prose that invites us to engage, rather than writing as an observer the way Hemingway often does.

62.   He regarded writing as a competitive sport.

63.   He shies from the notion of writing as therapy.

64.   He simply saw writing as his best hope of escaping the humiliating poverty of a petty civil servant.

65.   He is fond of recounting how, as a graduate student at Harvard, he once wrote a paper relying solely on his own analysis of Shakespeare.

66.   He says he turned to writing as a form of therapy to help alleviate feelings of depression.

67.   He wrote it as a metaphor for McCarthyism.

68.   He wrote as a member of the Republican tax reform commission that recently called for replacing the federal income tax with some form of flat tax.

69.   He wrote the letter on his personal stationery and emphasizes that he wrote as a concerned citizen, not as chairman of the bridge task force.

70.   He returned to writing as a member of the board of editors before retiring.