#thing

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#detest #except #i #induces #make

Lawyers didn't seriously get involved in the Watergate stories until quite late, when we realized we were on to something. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#involved #late #lawyers #quite #realized

Certain political figures think when you call them and ask them for a comment; that you are somehow doing something that you shouldn't be doing. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#call #certain #comment #doing #figures

I have written things that Republicans and Democrats and all kinds of figures have either hated or felt very uncomfortable about. Because in doing these long projects and books, you get close to the bone. And they're not calling me up and asking me for dinner. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#asking #because #bone #books #calling

Newspapers that are truly independent, like The Washington Post, can still aggressively investigate anyone or anything with no holds barred. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#anyone #anything #barred #holds #independent

Nixon had some large achievements in foreign affairs. They will be remembered. But a president probably gets remembered for one thing, and Watergate will head the Nixon list, I suspect. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#affairs #foreign #foreign affairs #gets #had

The biggest rap on me is that I don't find a Watergate every couple of years. Well, Watergate was unique. It's not something Carl Bernstein, I, or the Washington Post caused. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#biggest #carl #caused #couple #every

There is a garbage culture out there, where we pour garbage on people. Then the pollsters run around and take a poll and say, do you smell anything? ↗

— Bob Woodward

#around #culture #garbage #out #people

Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#happened #nothing #really #recorded #until

A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#complete #finished #masterpiece #mind #once