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"When somebody asks me what I do, I don't think I'd say critic. I say writer."
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"There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page."
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"The media in America has become so cowed and compromised."
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"Interviews were invented to make journalism less passive. Instead of waiting for something to happen, journalists ask someone what should or could happen."
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"So sad "Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior" the series ended open and it was made in 2011 and it ended in 2011!"
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"A newspaper is an oversized book with adverts and an expiry date."
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"Through TV people turn their family living rooms into meditative dens of death and violence worship."
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"We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print."
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"In a society where dirt sells, for every good story told as it is, you will hear the whole of that day's 10 bad stories sensationalized; although in reality, it could be that 100 good deeds happened that day which went unsung."
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"If you believe in journalism, you don't insult good journalists."
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"The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw."
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"The novel is the first art form that is an honest-to-god commodity. That's what makes it different from both high art and folk art."
Art
"Writers always know whether you like them or not."
Media
"I love it now that a large minority of people who are handicapped prefer to call themselves crippled. This is all part of the game, like queer theory."
Love
"When I was 12 years old, someone took me to see Martha Graham. It was nothing like what I thought of as serious dancing and even then I knew I was having a great experience. It was as if somebody was moving through space like no one ever did before."
Experience
"All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science."
Art
"When all of us are forgotten, people will still be remembering Stephen King."
People
"When somebody asks me what I do, I don't think I'd say critic. I say writer."
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"Saul Bellow never took my advice when he was my friend."
Friendship
"I have, I admit, a low tolerance for detached chronicling and cool analysis."
Literature
"The black situation has changed. They finally realized they're Americans."
Politics
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