"The average life takes about 17 hours to tell. Every life story I've ever collected has ended up taking up almost the exact amount of tape. It's odd, when you think about it, that in all those years, each of us has only collected less than a day of interesting material."
That’s the startling finding from the former New York Times music critic, Neil Straus after he switched over to interviewing people (including a porn star) to ghostwrite their books.
