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All of journalism is a shrinking art. So much of it is hype. The O.J. Simpson story is a landmark in the decline of journalism.


Dick Schaap


#decline #hype #journalism #landmark #much

The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history.


Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel


#character #criticism #experts #favorite #german

I always try to make the setting fit the story I have in mind.


Tony Hillerman


#fit #i #i always #make #mind

Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.


Russell Hoban


#effort #history #human #human effort #language

There are definitely some stories worth telling and I think there's something to be said for telling your story.


Susanna Hoffs


#i #i think #said #some #something

The Little Friend is a long book. It's also completely different from my first novel: different landscape, different characters, different use of language and diction, different approach to story.


Donna Tartt


#approach #book #characters #completely #diction

If you want to get an education in how to get a story and how to survive, then get a street reporter job in New York City.


John Tesh


#education #get #how #job #new

I'm not constrained by being a genre writer. Any story I can imagine, I can cast as a fantasy novel and probably get it published.


Lynn Abbey


#being #cast #constrained #fantasy #genre

First of all, there's no mention of political parties in the Constitution, so you begin American history with not only no political conventions but also no parties.


Michael Beschloss


#american #american history #begin #constitution #conventions

The thing is, emotion - if it's visibly felt by the writer - will go through all the processes it takes to publish a story and still hit the reader right in the gut. But you have to really mean it.


Anne McCaffrey


#felt #go #gut #hit #mean






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