One must choose between Obscurity with Efficiency, and Fame with its inevitable collateral of Bluff.
Probably every subject is interesting if an avenue into it can be found that has humanity and that an ordinary person can follow.
One of underestimated tasks in nonfiction writing is to impose narrative shape on an unwieldy mass of material.
Then, as now, I believe that the English use language to hide what they mean.
If someone knows me and likes me or my work, they're more likely to allow me to tell their story. But it also cuts the other way.
I am a gym rat who loves to work out, particularly running, Zumba, yoga, cycling, and kickboxing.
There's a longstanding tradition that journalists don't cheer in the press box. They have opinions, like anyone else, but they are expected to keep those opinions out of their work.
On a regular basis if you're trying to produce something, I think you should work every day and set achievable goals.
I began my journalistic career on the day Ronald Reagan was sworn in. That's the day I showed up for work at 'The New Republic' magazine.
We are very lucky to work in fashion and not work in a hospital or something where the biggest deal we come across is perhaps the length of a skirt.
I told the caterer I'd work for nothing if he'd teach me about catering. I lasted one week full-time. It was exhausting.
The prices are ridiculous... I don't see how people can go back and forth to work or to school. How can we afford the gas?
I knew that everybody could be replaced. Nobody lasts forever. And if you work for somebody, he's certainly got the privilege and the right to fire you.
More than working toward the book's climax, I work toward the denouement. As a reader and a writer, that's where I find the real satisfaction.
When you take something extremely broad, then it is not a work of expansion or work of compression. It's hard because you have to decide what to throw out.
While it can be pleasurable to move speedily through a work of fiction, there's a different sort of pleasure to be had in lingering, backtracking, rereading the same page.
I think I'm more sympathetic to writers, to the work and the struggle and the craft of it, than when I was in graduate school at NYU and was very judgmental.
A lot of times we work across multiple platforms. We'll go to Japan working on the tsunami for 'Nightly News' and it'll end up on 'Dateline.'
Strict shopping laws mean that most German shops close on Saturday afternoons, reopening only on Monday when everybody is back at work.
'In Cold Blood' is not a thriller at all, really. It is, however, the first work of its kind: a true crime book that reads like fiction.
I believe that one can indeed work on two or more tasks at once, but in ways yet to be understood.
