- Nov 07, 2020
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not long after I published my first book, I quickly found I was terrible at being interviewed.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The newspaper is, in fact, very bad for one's prose style. That's why I gravitated towards feature stories where you get a little more leeway in the writing style.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wrote a number of pieces in the year 1966 that were so bad that, although I'm a great collector of my own pieces, I have never collected them.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a great believer in outlines.
- Build
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never met an American who wanted to build an empire.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never forget. I never forgive. I can wait. I find it very easy to harbor a grudge. I have scores to settle.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My entire career, in fiction or nonfiction, I have reported and written about people who are not like me.
- Nov 07, 2020
I do novels a bit backward. I look for a situation, a milieu first, and then I wait to see who walks into it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Television reporters aren't really called reporters. They are called researchers. And that's really all they are.
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- Nov 07, 2020
God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most people don't read editorial pages. I think I must have been 40 before I even looked at an editorial page.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was a time in the 1930s when magazine writers could actually make a good living. 'The Saturday Evening Post' and 'Collier's' both had three stories in each issue. These were usually entertaining, and people really went for them. But then television came along, and now of course, information technology... the new way of killing time.
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- Nov 07, 2020
People complain about my exclamation points, but I honestly think that's the way people think. I don't think people think in essays; it's one exclamation point to another.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have never knowingly, I swear to God, written satire. The word connotes exaggeration of the foibles of mankind. To me, mankind just has foibles. You don't have to push it!
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was the editor of an agricultural magazine called 'The Southern Planter.' He didn't think of himself as a writer. He was a scientist, an agronomist, but I thought of him as a writer because I'd seen him working at his desk. I just assumed that I was going to do that, that I was going to be a writer.
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- Nov 07, 2020