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I don't think journalists should talk about whom they're voting for.

Not long after I published my first book, I quickly found I was terrible at being interviewed.

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The newspaper is, in fact, very bad for one's prose style. That's why I gravitated towards feature stories where you get a little more leeway in the writing style.

I wrote a number of pieces in the year 1966 that were so bad that, although I'm a great collector of my own pieces, I have never collected them.

I'm a great believer in outlines.

I've never met an American who wanted to build an empire.

I never forget. I never forgive. I can wait. I find it very easy to harbor a grudge. I have scores to settle.

My entire career, in fiction or nonfiction, I have reported and written about people who are not like me.

I do novels a bit backward. I look for a situation, a milieu first, and then I wait to see who walks into it.

Television reporters aren't really called reporters. They are called researchers. And that's really all they are.

God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.

Most people don't read editorial pages. I think I must have been 40 before I even looked at an editorial page.

That's mostly what the Internet is, just passing the time. But unfortunately you are dealing with words that can have meaning.

There was a time in the 1930s when magazine writers could actually make a good living. 'The Saturday Evening Post' and 'Collier's' both had three stories in each issue. These were usually entertaining, and people really went for them. But...

People complain about my exclamation points, but I honestly think that's the way people think. I don't think people think in essays; it's one exclamation point to another.

I have never knowingly, I swear to God, written satire. The word connotes exaggeration of the foibles of mankind. To me, mankind just has foibles. You don't have to push it!

My father was the editor of an agricultural magazine called 'The Southern Planter.' He didn't think of himself as a writer. He was a scientist, an agronomist, but I thought of him as a writer because I'd seen him working...

The first newspaper I worked on was the 'Springfield Union' in Springfield, Massachusetts. I wrote over a hundred letters to newspapers asking for work and got three responses, two no's.

Working on newspapers, you're writing to a certain length, often very brief pieces; you tend to look for easy forms of humor - women can't drive, things like that. That's about the level of a lot of newspaper humor. It...

By the time I received my doctorate in American studies in 1957, I was in the twisted grip of a disease of our times in which the sufferer experiences an overwhelming urge to join the 'real world.' So I started...

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