Daniel Yergin

And that's the image I have is that I sketch it out.

And then I...

fill it out and work on it.

And another thing, I mean, unlike a lot of people, I love to edit and polish.

I mean, I love going over it and just making a sentence better and then saying how to make it better.

And then like with the prize, one of the things, I read the whole book aloud to myself to test every sentence.

Does every sentence have resilience?

Does it, you know, does it sing?

And so, you know, for me, that's a, you know, a source of pleasure to do that.

Sometimes we had an apartment overlooking the Charles River in Cambridge.

I'd look out there at 2 a.m.

in the morning and think, you know, what's going to happen?

And I think those around me kind of a little bit despaired.

You know, this could end up in a...

a veil of tears, you know, but it turned out, you know, and then the book was basically five years late, brilliantly timed.

People said they have a great sense of time.

And I said, I was five years late.

So, but I did have a sense that I needed to get it done.

That's something that some crisis was gonna come.

I had a sense of that and that drove me.