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" It was a very circuitous path. It was not very linear - I floundered about for many years. "

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" 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 had always been a huge Sherlock Holmes fan. "

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" My night stand is more like a geological structure: a bunch of books piled on the floor with its own strata. "

" Journalists are often portrayed as cynical. I often think it's the opposite. "

" I've always been a big believer that you can use the elements of storytelling to bring the reader along and to hopefully illuminate a lot of the important things. It's a challenge, but it's something I kind of believe in. "

" When I work on stories, I tend to be pretty obsessive. "

" Early on, I tried fiction, but I wasn't very good at it. I wrote a very bad novel that is thankfully sitting in a drawer somewhere. "

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

" Each person, as they live through history, can't see it all. "

" 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. "

" The outlaw, in the American imagination, is a subject of romance - a 'good' bad man, he is typically a master of escape, a crack shot, a ladies' man. "

" The political hero is not like the sports champion or matinee idol or daring inventor; like the war hero, he is born only of tragedy. "

" We are a country of laws. When you take that away, the consequences are enormous. "

" I wish a book could reach as many people as film, but we have to be realistic about it. "

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

" Like many people, I kicked around, struggled to become a writer, finally got my first full-time job around 27, 28, at 'The Hill' newspaper. They hired me as a copy editor, which was kind of funny because I'm semi-blind because I have an eye disorder. "

" I'm a very slow reader. "

" We all mythologize to some degree ourselves and probably embellish. I think some of that is the desire to tell stories. "

" When I work on stories, I tend to lose sight of everything else. I forget to pay bills or to shave. I don't change my clothes as often as I should. "

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

" There's a tendency when we write history to do it with the power of hindsight and then assume almost god-like knowledge that nobody living through history has. "

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

" 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. "

" It's funny: I don't know if she babysat, but I spent time with Judy Blume when I was little. "

" Heroes have always served as a reflection of their times, a template of who we are and what we want to be. "

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

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

" Base stealers are often considered their own breed: reckless, egocentric, even a touch mad. "

" 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. "