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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Although baseball actually began as a game played largely by urban toughs, its image was soon reconstructed to mirror the country's pastoral myth. "

" The way we live history is not the way historians tell history. Our lives are messy and chaotic and bewildering. "

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

" 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. "

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

" For a while, when I got out of college, I tried to write fiction. I'd grown up more around novelists, and my initial attraction was to write fiction. But I was much less suited for it. I always struggled to figure out what people were saying or doing in a particular moment. "

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

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

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

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" One of the nice things about 'The New Yorker' is they let you write stories that sometimes end up almost half a book. "

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

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

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

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