You're always thinking, "What does that add up to?" You can't really get a handle on it. I was curious. I felt like it would be an interesting challenge for me to write down what I'd seen and done and learned - all the convolutions captured in one item that I could look at and get some grip on what the hell happened.
Richard HellIn fact I thought life was pretty much a losing proposition, and I didn't mind saying so.
Richard HellA memoir takes some particular threads, some incidents, some experience from a person's life and gives an account of it.
Richard HellAnother thing that's good about writing to describe a situation or a state of consciousness is that you can finally get it right. That was my intention, and that's always interesting.
Richard Hell