My parents are aging and there are difficult issues. It's strange to have children at the beginning of life and parents nearing the end.
Amy WaldmanAs a novelist, you deepen your characters as you go, adding layers. As a reporter, you try to peel layers away: observing subjects enough to get beneath the surface, re-questioning a source to find the facts. But these processes aren't so different.
Amy WaldmanThere were in life rarely, if ever, "right" decisions, never perfect ones, only the best to be made under the circumstances.
Amy WaldmanAs a reporter you tend to seek coherence from your subject or your source - it all needs to add up and make sense. In truth, in reality, there's often a great deal of murkiness and muddiness, confusion and contradiction.
Amy Waldman