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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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" 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. "

" If I can find the right idea, I can get out of the way and do a good story. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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 look for stories everywhere. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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" I don't normally do pure historical work. "

" I haven't read a word of Proust. And I listen obsessively to sports radio. "

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

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