Tom Rachman

At the outset, my notion of being a writer was that you would have moments of inspiration and moments of frustration, when…

— Tom Rachman

“He cannot deny a certain relief in being able to sift through academic tomes, fulfilling his journalistic duty without having to barge…

— Tom Rachman

My intent was to gain experience for fiction I eventually hoped to write. But there's no question I was drawn in by…

— Tom Rachman

“I built and I built— heaven knows I have done that well. Those skyscrapers, full of tenants, floor after floor, and not…

— Tom Rachman

“What is wrong with guys? Half are molting; half are nothing but undergrowth.”

— Tom Rachman

“What I really fear is time. That's the devil: whipping us on when we'd rather loll, so the present sprints by, impossible…

— Tom Rachman

“Journalism is a bunch of dorks pretending to be alpha males.”

— Tom Rachman

My parents used to rent old movies - my whole childhood is in black and white - and it was my dream…

— Tom Rachman

I went to the University of Toronto to study the history and theory of film, in the back of my mind thinking…

— Tom Rachman

The training of a journalist, of working with words for thousands of hours, is extraordinarily useful for a fiction writer.

— Tom Rachman

During my past career as a journalist, I relished writing obits and equally dreaded phoning relatives for the necessary facts. But to…

— Tom Rachman

“Don't people drown their sorrows in things like scotch? Not strawberry whatever-it's-called.”

— Tom Rachman

“Nothing epitomizes the futility of human striving quite like aspartame.”

— Tom Rachman

“She is a wonderful nerd, and he hopes this won't change. He'd be distressed if she were cool-- it'd be as if…

— Tom Rachman

Many things embarrass me, but reading isn't one of them. I'm not ashamed of my slightly weird collection of prison memoirs. Nor…

— Tom Rachman

The strength of fiction is not in reading about yourself, but in reading about other people.

— Tom Rachman

“Nothing, not even dictionaries, can tell you what anything means," he said. "The reality of things is just sad, for the most…

— Tom Rachman

There are journalists who are drawn to the most extroverted, aggressive jobs because they get an ego high from it. It can…

— Tom Rachman

“The only death we experience is that of other people”

— Tom Rachman

“But my point, you see is that death is misunderstood. The loss of one's life is not the greatest loss. It is…

— Tom Rachman

“I got myself into a tangle. I tied myself in knots. I built and I built–heaven knows I have done that well.…

— Tom Rachman

“The Internet is to news," he said, "what car horns are to music.”

— Tom Rachman

The question I ask myself is what would have happened if newspapers hadn't initially given their content away for free on the…

— Tom Rachman

People, it turns out, aren't a product of their own time. They're a product of the time before theirs

— Tom Rachman

“In his pocket, the mobile phone beeped and wriggled. They'd said on the radio that the entirety of human knowledge was available…

— Tom Rachman