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"The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind."

"Murrow covered something because it needed coverage. He wasn't trying to get an audience just for the sake of it."

"Journalism never admits that nothing much is happening."

"It's no longer just reporting the headlines of the day, but trying to put the headlines into some context and to add some perspective into what they mean."

"My own view, there is a need for and a demonstrated need for more journalism now than there ever has been."

"Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism."

"The only school that let me in was U.C. Santa Cruz, which is where I went. They didn't have a journalism program, so I took sociology, which is the closest thing to journalism."

"In the end, Dan Rather's legend skewered him, CBS and the craft of journalism."

"I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to understand this event, and the only way to understand it was to write about it."
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"It's astonishing what some women will put up with just to have a warm body. Some of the brightest women I know are just obsessed with that search. It's very sad."

"The more interesting the 9-to-5 work is, the more it takes away from my real work, which is writing."

"It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It's harder to stay where you are than to get out. For everyone but you, that is."

"I knew I'd have to go to work in real estate or something else or I could never finish my novel."
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