#go

And I think a good writer's gonna make it interesting. From the first paragraph it will all be interesting. Just work at it and work at it and work at it. ↗

— Kurt Loder

#gonna #good #i #i think #interesting

And the most important thing you can do is learn to edit yourself. And then go back and rewrite. ↗

— Kurt Loder

#edit #go #important #important thing #learn

But music raises a lot of issues. Music is something that matters to people a lot, and they put a lot of passion into it. And I think when you have an area like that, you're gonna find a lot of issues coming up. ↗

— Kurt Loder

#coming #find #gonna #i #i think

It's gonna be short if it's news; put it at the top. Style's not an issue, just make it news. ↗

— Kurt Loder

#issue #just #make #news #put

It's not a good thing to be friends with people you're covering. There's just no point in doing it. It's tempting, but they're not going to consider you their friend anyway. They just know that you're somebody that can do something for them. ↗

— Kurt Loder

#anyway #consider #covering #doing #friend

Unless you're doing a feature piece, which is going to be longer, and you have more time to get into stuff. ↗

— Kurt Loder

#feature #get #going #into #longer

You find the most important thing that really grabs you, and put it right up top. Don't bury the lead. Put it at the top. Best thing to do. Never go wrong that way. It's an immutable law of journalism. It just always works. ↗

— Kurt Loder

#best #bury #find #go #grabs

It was lucky for me. It wasn't lucky for the nine people that got killed and the 20 that were injured. ↗

— Barney Ross

#injured #killed #lucky #me #nine

Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall, freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#civilization #down #everywhere #fall #freedom

We would not have our country's vigour exhausted or her moral force abated, by everlasting meddling and muddling in every quarrel, great and small, which afflicts the world. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#country #everlasting #every #exhausted #force