We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don't… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
As a writer, I know that - you write a first draft and then put it in a drawer. The longer I… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fails on the strength… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
My writing model is my mother, who is a writer as well. She always valued clarity and simplicity above all else. If… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
I don't think I will ever write about politics or foreign policy. I feel like there is so much good writing in… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
When I see someone who reads something of mine and draws something out of it that's very different from my perspective, I… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
I don't go to an office, so I write at home. I like to write in the morning, if possible; that's when… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
My highest compliment is when someone comes up to me to say, "My 14-year-old daughter, or my 12-year-old son read your book… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
When people reflexively write checks to institutions that have billions of dollars in the bank, they are essentially committing a moral crime.… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
We prematurely write off people as failures. We are too much in awe of those who succeed and far too dismissive of… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
So long as the stereotype is used as a way of understanding how to fix the problem as opposed to demonizing a… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
When writing, you can't break physical rules. You can't have people come back from the dead. That's cheating. I am a kind… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The two contemporary writers whom I consider as role models are Janet Malcolm and Michael Lewis. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
We cling to the idea that success is a simple function of individual merit and that the world in which we all… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Sometimes constraints actually create success. Not being able to swim made me run. And running taught me the discipline I needed as… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Clear writing is universal. People talk about writing down to an audience or writing up to an audience; I think that's nonsense.… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade...It succeeds or fails on the strength of… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Nothing frustrates me more than someone who reads something of mine or anyone else's and says, angrily, 'I don't buy it.' Why… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
I write my books to challenge my own feelings and theories. Perhaps most surprising was what I learned about rice farming. It… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“I deal with writer’s block by lowering my expectations. I think the trouble starts when you sit down to write and imagine… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
When I go to my health club, and it's in the basement, you have to take the elevator down. And this drives me crazy.… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“The scholars who research happiness suggest that more money stops making people happier at a family income of around seventy-five thousand dollars a year.… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
We need to be clear when we venerate entrepreneurs what we are venerating.They are not moral leaders. If they were moral leaders, they wouldn't… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“Some people look like they sound better than they actually sound, because they look confident and have good posture," once musician, a veteran of… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
A handicap is like trying to race and you have a ten pound weight stuck to your waist. That is a handicap. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“neighborhood was filled with engineers from Hewlett-Packard, then as now one of” — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“People are ruined by challenged economic lives. But they are ruined by wealth as well because they lose their ambition and they lose their… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The single most important thing a city can do is provide a community where interesting, smart people want to live with their families. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
[Norden] said, with the Mark 15 Norden bombsight, he could drop a bomb into a pickle barrel at 20,000 feet. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The willingness to be self-critical in England is much greater than the willingness to be self-critical in America. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The conventional explanation for Jewish success, of course, is that Jews come from a literate, intellectual culture. They are famously "the people of the… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
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