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"Our business is communication oftentimes through the medium of stories but our capacity has a far greater scope - to entertain certainly, but also to stimulate debate, to mark up changes and differences and that way, to maybe, just now and then, to change the world."
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"Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they're attached to dollar signs - unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and felony criminal defendants who tend to be keenly aware of numbers at all times."

"The first issue of The Register was printed in London, and gave a glowing account of the province that was to be - its climate, its resources, the sound principles on which it was founded."

"When reading a book, you are sold what some writer thought. When reading a newspaper, you are sold what someone did, and, what some advertiser made."

"In journalism just one fact that is false prejudices the entire work. In contrast, in fiction one single fact that is true gives legitimacy to the entire work. That's the only difference, and it lies in the commitment of the writer. A novelist can do anything he wants so long as he makes people believe in it."

"Burke said there were three Estates in Parliament but in the reporters' gallery yonder there sat a fourth Estate more important than them all."

"Through TV people turn their family living rooms into meditative dens of death and violence worship."

"Today they have proven once again that the mainstream media can't print enough bad news about our troops."

"A celebrity is an object that the media manufactures today, just so they have a subject tomorrow."
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"I love stories that suck you in, that you can't stop reading because you are quite simply there."


"I've been obsessed with stories since I was a kid so it's no surprise that I ended up writing for a living."


"If there's one shade a woman of colour can't wear it's got to be the one everyone expects, hasn't it?"


"There was something about Maria Graham that you could believe in " a slice of home. If not unique in her travelling, she was at least extraordinary."


"An important part of deciding where we want to go, as a society and culture, is knowing where we have come from, and indeed, how far we have come."


"The best historical stories capture the modern imagination because they are, in many senses, still current - part of a continuum."
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