To what degree are historians chroniclers of the truth and to what degree are they just novelists, frankly?

If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable, rather than its literal narrative.

People test movies within an inch of their life, so that the entire audience experience is a uniform one.

Generally, I read nonfiction. Theres very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy.

Firms are a bit concerned about things like oil prices and US growth but actually the change (in firms expectations) is quite small so I think broadly theyre looking for more of the same.

I give everything my best shot and sometimes it doesn't work out and other times it works out much better than you thought.

I can't relax when I'm watching a biographical drama, because it's so close to what it is that I do that I just long for more fiction - so that I can switch off.