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"For many years I was engaged in journalism, writing articles and chronicles for the daily press without ever joining the staff of any newspaper."
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"I wrote for a weekly magazine and then edited a literary magazine, but I did not really feel comfortable with the profession of journalism itself."
"Without sounding too pretentious, I was sort of a slave to the narrative. When the narrative cracks in, I have to go where it takes me. I had to go to the Bohemian Grove. It was the obvious end to the book."
"Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it."
"It's all quotes, anyway, and it all sounds the same to me."
"To pick up the paper and read about yourself getting slammed, that doesn't start your day off right."
"I always felt more emotionally attached to Cambodia than I did to Vietnam."
"Writers are the lunatic fringe of publishing."
"Professionally, I remember Cronkite as a kid growing up, and more so for me, the importance of Cronkite was not him sitting there at the anchor desk, but him out there doing things."
"Local television news, on both radio and television, is so appalling. Makes print journalism look like the greatest stuff ever written."
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"For many years I was engaged in journalism, writing articles and chronicles for the daily press without ever joining the staff of any newspaper."
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