The reality is closer to what Anna Quindlen, once a columnist with the New York Times and now with Newsweek, said. It is a kind of living out loud, in which you see the world through your eyes, your eyes only, and technically do not have to apologize for it, even though you often feel like you should when the person on the phone is screaming at you. The job requirement is to be authentic, even if that means contradictory. To stand for something. To be funny only when you truly are.
Nothing is harder.
Fiction conveys events more through feel than fact. It wasn't what you had for issues. . . . Take that, Wally baby. Words to live by. St. Petersburg Times.