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"So many differing opinions and philosophies... are rarely housed under the roof of a single magazine."
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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."
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"I have always tended toward a lush prose style, but I take care to modulate it from story to story and to strip it down entirely when necessary."
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"So many differing opinions and philosophies... are rarely housed under the roof of a single magazine."
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