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" Memory is a code to who we are, a collection of not just dates and facts but also of epic emotional struggles, epiphanies, transformations. "

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" 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. "

" 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 think you get into trouble as an author and a journalist when, rather than owning the gaps, you try to elide them. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I spend my life mostly disproving conspiracies. "

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

" One of my favorite authors to read is Eric Ambler, who helped pioneer the form of realistic suspense novels. "

" I grew up around writers, and there was always a romance to them. They were charming. They would tell their stories of what they were working on, over the table. "

" I love the magic of stories and the power of stories. "

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

" The romantic notion of the clubhouse as a traveling fraternity of working-class heroes - the boys of summer - is perhaps the most potent in all of baseball. "

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

" 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. "

" There are some incredibly gifted writers in the world. You can count them on a hand. They're blessed, and they've worked at their craft, but there's very few. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

" In Brazil, the history of the interaction between blancos and indios - whites and Indians - often reads like an extended epitaph. Tribes were wiped out by disease and massacres; languages and songs were obliterated. "

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