“Obviously, you are an elderly, experienced person, who has reason to consider yourself smart - and at the same time, like most normal people, inexperienced in the literary craft. What do you want? You intend to write a memoir. So: what do you have? Information. Facts, thoughts and even sometimes feelings. A life lived that seems interesting to you. Meetings with interesting people, amazing incidents, unique scenes, deep thoughts. Pictures of life from long ago, which it would be a pity and wrong to give up to oblivion, I would like to transfer from memory to a durable, objective medium - to paper, in this case...”