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- Pretty
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I work on stories, I tend to be pretty obsessive.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's funny: I don't know if she babysat, but I spent time with Judy Blume when I was little.
- Charming
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up around writers, and there was always a romance to them. They were charming. They would tell their stories of what they were working on, over the table.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a while, when I got out of college, I tried to write fiction. I'd grown up more around novelists, and my initial attraction was to write fiction. But I was much less suited for it. I always struggled to figure out what people were saying or doing in a particular moment.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had many different careers early on. I knew I wanted to be a writer. But, like so many people, I didn't know how to be one - other than just do it. I didn't know what form it would take.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Early on, I tried fiction, but I wasn't very good at it. I wrote a very bad novel that is thankfully sitting in a drawer somewhere.
- Clothes
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I work on stories, I tend to lose sight of everything else. I forget to pay bills or to shave. I don't change my clothes as often as I should.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
The giant squid is the perfect embodiment of a sea monster: it is huge, it has tentacles, it has big eyes, and it is absolutely frightening-looking. But, most important, it is real. Unlike the Loch Ness monster, we know it's out there.
- Joke
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because many squid have brain nerve fibres that are hundreds of times thicker than those of humans, neuroscientists have long used them for research. These nerve fibres have led to so many breakthroughs in the study of neurons that many scientists joke that the squid should receive a Nobel Prize.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The amazing thing about the sea is that it is perhaps the last truly unexplored frontier; most oceanographers estimate that only about ninety-five per cent of the sea has been studied. Meanwhile, the oceans are believed to contain more animals than exist on land, a majority of which have never been discovered.
- Nov 07, 2020
Heroes have always served as a reflection of their times, a template of who we are and what we want to be.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
The political hero is not like the sports champion or matinee idol or daring inventor; like the war hero, he is born only of tragedy.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The outlaw, in the American imagination, is a subject of romance - a 'good' bad man, he is typically a master of escape, a crack shot, a ladies' man.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
Base stealers are often considered their own breed: reckless, egocentric, even a touch mad.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love the magic of stories and the power of stories.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
Baseball, of course, has long been played under the burden of metaphor. More so than basketball or football, it is supposed to represent something larger than itself.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although baseball actually began as a game played largely by urban toughs, its image was soon reconstructed to mirror the country's pastoral myth.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
The romantic notion of the clubhouse as a traveling fraternity of working-class heroes - the boys of summer - is perhaps the most potent in all of baseball.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
Barry Bonds was still young when his father's fall began. Although Bobby still continued to put up good numbers year after year, he never lived up to expectations.
- Dead
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- Nov 07, 2020
Firemen have a culture of death. There are rituals, carefully constructed for the living, to process the dead.
- Facts
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- Nov 07, 2020
Memory is a code to who we are, a collection of not just dates and facts but also of epic emotional struggles, epiphanies, transformations.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
After a traumatic event, people tend to store a series of memories and arrange them into a meaningful narrative. They remember exactly where they were and to whom they were talking.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like many people, I kicked around, struggled to become a writer, finally got my first full-time job around 27, 28, at 'The Hill' newspaper. They hired me as a copy editor, which was kind of funny because I'm semi-blind because I have an eye disorder.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was not very good at newspaper reporting. I'm just not quick enough, and I always tend to tell things as stories.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm sure every author has their own process.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think you get into trouble as an author and a journalist when, rather than owning the gaps, you try to elide them.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be honest, I used to always procrastinate when I write. I mean, I love writing, but I hate it.
- Many
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was a very circuitous path. It was not very linear - I floundered about for many years.
- Side
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a schoolteacher; I taught seventh and eighth grade, and I tried to write fiction on the side.
- Grad School
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tried a few grad school programs because I didn't know how to make it... Eventually, I was desperate for a job, and there was a new newspaper opening up in Washington, D.C., called 'The Hill.' Even though my interest in politics wasn't huge, they gave me a job as a copy editor.
- Moderate
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of Gingrich's moderate positions are rooted in a realpolitik that transcends ideology.
- Extended
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Brazil, the history of the interaction between blancos and indios - whites and Indians - often reads like an extended epitaph. Tribes were wiped out by disease and massacres; languages and songs were obliterated.
- Legal
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things I believe strongly in is developing institutions - legal, press, bureaucracies, academies - that are rooted in the pursuit of impartial truth. That aren't simply just bent to partisan ends or are corrupted for the powerful or for other ulterior motives.
- Mostly
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spend my life mostly disproving conspiracies.
- I Wish
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wish a book could reach as many people as film, but we have to be realistic about it.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the nice things about 'The New Yorker' is they let you write stories that sometimes end up almost half a book.
- Journalists
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- Nov 07, 2020
Journalists are often portrayed as cynical. I often think it's the opposite.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of the stories I write about have an element of mystery. They're crime stories or conspiracy stories or quests. They do have built into them revelations and twists. But the revelations, to me, come from seeing history as it's unfolding, or life as it's unfolding.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
The public, the whites - not just in Oklahoma, but across the United States - were transfixed by the Osage wealth which belied images of Native Americans that could be traced back to the first brutal contact with whites.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Each person, as they live through history, can't see it all.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
My night stand is more like a geological structure: a bunch of books piled on the floor with its own strata.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have lots of gaps in my education, and so I'm often picking up classic books that most people read years ago.
- Francisco
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't cry too often reading books, but I did reading Francisco Goldman's autobiographical novel, 'Say Her Name.'
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
The way we live history is not the way historians tell history. Our lives are messy and chaotic and bewildering.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a tendency when we write history to do it with the power of hindsight and then assume almost god-like knowledge that nobody living through history has.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
The biggest difference with Twitter and writing long form is you're part of a virtual community where you know people, or think you know them, through their links.
- Editor
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- Nov 07, 2020