David Simon

A little anger is a good thing if it isn't on your own behalf, if it's for others deserving of your anger, your empathy. ↗

— David Simon

#anger #behalf #deserving #empathy #good

I had a great editor, Rebecca Corbett, from the time I was a city reporter right through to the years I worked on the 'Sun's' enterprise reporting team. ↗

— David Simon

#editor #enterprise #great #had #i

I would be lying if I said the journalism doesn't reflect my own choices as a reporter and a writer: what to say, what to emphasize, how to say it, what is true or untrue. ↗

— David Simon

#emphasize #how #i #journalism #lying

It seems that in Baltimore, one of the most violent cities in America, jurors are far more reluctant to convict criminal defendants than in the suburban enclaves that ring the city. ↗

— David Simon

#baltimore #cities #city #convict #criminal

It's been said that no man is a hero to a newspaperman, and I spent too many years as an ink-stained wretch. ↗

— David Simon

#hero #i #man #many #newspaperman

On a practical level I'm a TV producer and storyteller who's gone about as long as you can go without achieving a mass audience. ↗

— David Simon

#achieving #audience #go #gone #i

There are a couple of ideas for features that I would love to do. They happen to be comedies. ↗

— David Simon

#couple #features #happen #i #ideas

To be told you've won a MacArthur fellowship is very flattering and gratifying personally. ↗

— David Simon

#flattering #gratifying #personally #told #very

What writer wants to make compromises with story? Story is the only reason you're in it. ↗

— David Simon

#make #only #reason #story #wants

While I think storytelling is a meaningful way to spend your life... it does feel a little bit secondary or off-point. ↗

— David Simon

#does #feel #i #i think #life