Gerard, Chapter 5, "On Assignment"

This chapter was a fun one--I always like it when writers teach the reader through their own stories, so reading about Gerard's search for Hemingway's Paris was good. It's interesting, personal, and insightful. And, the idea of going on assignment, and especially to a large European city, builds vivid images in my head of the London I was just pulled away from. So, here's the quote:

"It's exactly the unexpected, the thing you never counted on, the problem that inspires an inventive solution, than can carry a fairly predictable piece to a new level."

This is the same thing I seem to keep getting from the readings so far this semester: we start out in one direction, but personal experience and the text itself force us to find new ways of looking at things. Gerard says here that if we listen and are flexible, then we can find the story.