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" I have lots of gaps in my education, and so I'm often picking up classic books that most people read years ago. "

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" I had many different careers early on. I knew I wanted to be a writer. But, like so many people, I didn't know how to be one - other than just do it. I didn't know what form it would take. "

" Because I read so much nonfiction for work, I enjoy fiction most, especially detective novels and mysteries that keep me awake at night. "

" There was a part of me that always wanted to be an editor. "

" One of the things I believe strongly in is developing institutions - legal, press, bureaucracies, academies - that are rooted in the pursuit of impartial truth. That aren't simply just bent to partisan ends or are corrupted for the powerful or for other ulterior motives. "

" Baseball, of course, has long been played under the burden of metaphor. More so than basketball or football, it is supposed to represent something larger than itself. "

" I covered Congress, and everyone always wanted me to be a political reporter. "

" There are certain stories that remind you of the moral purpose that originally drew you to become a reporter. "

" The Osage have this lovely phrase: 'Travelers in the Mist.' It was the term for part of an Osage clan that would take the lead whenever the tribe was venturing into unfamiliar realms. And, in a way, we are all travelers in the mist. The challenge is that, as writers, we sometimes want to ignore this murkiness, or we want to write around it. "

" If someone told me I had to stop writing stories, that would be the end of me. "

" I'm sure every author has their own process. "

" I really just choose stories that are compelling, have interesting trends and characters, and hopefully say something larger about society. "

" I guess if I had to pick one interest that is unique, it would be giant squids - I'm disturbingly fascinated by them and even wrote a story about the hunt for them. "

" I was a schoolteacher; I taught seventh and eighth grade, and I tried to write fiction on the side. "

" I don't hunt, I don't camp, and I get lost on my subway to work here in Times Square! "

" I had always been a huge Sherlock Holmes fan. "

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" Books were a huge part of my childhood growing up. We would go on vacation, and my mom was always carting manuscripts around. "

" I don't camp; I don't hike. I hate bugs, and I'm phobic of snakes. "

" A lot of the stories I write about have an element of mystery. They're crime stories or conspiracy stories or quests. They do have built into them revelations and twists. But the revelations, to me, come from seeing history as it's unfolding, or life as it's unfolding. "

" I don't want to just traffic in sensationalism or in mere blood. "

" I've done a lot of stories over the years, and sometimes there are larks, and they're fun, and you kind of move on. "

" It took me a long time to be able to write for the 'New Yorker,' and for me, that has been the best job. I live a very conventional life, but reporting for the magazine has allowed me to do things I would never otherwise do, such as investigating a criminal conspiracy in Guatemala or trekking through the Amazon looking for a lost city. "

" The amazing thing about the sea is that it is perhaps the last truly unexplored frontier; most oceanographers estimate that only about ninety-five per cent of the sea has been studied. Meanwhile, the oceans are believed to contain more animals than exist on land, a majority of which have never been discovered. "

" I often say that the best way to find a story is a one-inch brief in a local newspaper. "

" I'm kind of odd; I'm a technophobe who isn't a technophobe. I'm afraid of new things, but eventually I love them. That happened with Twitter. "

" The giant squid is the perfect embodiment of a sea monster: it is huge, it has tentacles, it has big eyes, and it is absolutely frightening-looking. But, most important, it is real. Unlike the Loch Ness monster, we know it's out there. "

" The public, the whites - not just in Oklahoma, but across the United States - were transfixed by the Osage wealth which belied images of Native Americans that could be traced back to the first brutal contact with whites. "

" I never want to make people upset, but sometimes we may. When I interview people, I try to make it clear that our obligation is to what we uncover and to telling that story and to presenting it fairly and making sure everyone has a say. "

" I spend my life mostly disproving conspiracies. "

" After a traumatic event, people tend to store a series of memories and arrange them into a meaningful narrative. They remember exactly where they were and to whom they were talking. "

" I often feel that with a crime story, the moral standards have to be higher. You're deal with real victims and with real consequences. "