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

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" Because many squid have brain nerve fibres that are hundreds of times thicker than those of humans, neuroscientists have long used them for research. These nerve fibres have led to so many breakthroughs in the study of neurons that many scientists joke that the squid should receive a Nobel Prize. "

" 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. "

" You have to go where the truth takes you, and that doesn't always take you in exactly the same place where people you speak to might want,or suspects may want. That's your ultimate obligation. "

" You want the story to be about something, have some deeper meaning, but there is also an emotional, almost instinctual, element, which is, does this story seize some part of you and compel you to get to the bottom of it? "

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

" You think of the rainforest as this incredibly abundant place of fauna and animals and flora. This great, rich wilderness. And yet it is such a biological battlefield in which everything is competing. "

" 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. "

" I spend my life mostly disproving conspiracies. "

" I don't cry too often reading books, but I did reading Francisco Goldman's autobiographical novel, 'Say Her Name.' "

" I was not very good at newspaper reporting. I'm just not quick enough, and I always tend to tell things as stories. "

" 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. "

" My mother doesn't need much sleep. At any hour of the night, you'd wake up, and she'd be reading. She'd read five, six books a week. When we went on sailing trips, she'd bring a suitcaseful for the week. Even then, her office would have to send more. "

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

" 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. "

" Barry Bonds was still young when his father's fall began. Although Bobby still continued to put up good numbers year after year, he never lived up to expectations. "

" When criminals go free, the hope is that history will come in and provide some level of justice. It won't correct the sins, but it will at least record them. The sinners would be known, and the victims' stories would be known. "

" I'm not a post-modernist. Especially when I do crime stories. "

" A lot of the stuff I tweet is out of childlike curiosity. "

" I tried a few grad school programs because I didn't know how to make it... Eventually, I was desperate for a job, and there was a new newspaper opening up in Washington, D.C., called 'The Hill.' Even though my interest in politics wasn't huge, they gave me a job as a copy editor. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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" Crime stories are often sensationalized. They can provoke lower standards. "

" To be honest, I used to always procrastinate when I write. I mean, I love writing, but I hate it. "

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