Tom Rachman

“It occurs to me that I've been wrong about something: I always assumed that age and experience weather you, make you more…

— Tom Rachman

You know, there's that silly saying 'We're born alone and we die alone' -it's nonsense. We're surrounded at birth and surrounded at…

— Tom Rachman

“What strikes me,” Sarah continued, “is that men are such savages—they don’t fold their clothes, they pee on the toilet seat, they…

— Tom Rachman

Art doesn't spring from the muses alone, but from hard work.

— Tom Rachman

What the art world has done, it has been constantly been pushing the boundaries about what art can be. It's like expanding…

— Tom Rachman

“...which is where I met my my husband. Not currently my husband. My ex. Though he wasn't that then. I never know…

— Tom Rachman

“When she realizes that Nigel is having an affair, her first sentiment is satisfaction that she figured it out. Her second is…

— Tom Rachman

“Good reporting and good behavior are mutually exclusive.”

— Tom Rachman

Basically, financial reporting is this sinking hole at the centre of journalism. You start by swimming around it until finally, reluctantly, you…

— Tom Rachman

“Who's Johnnie Walker?" "It's a drink. For grown-ups." "Is it nice?" "Makes you drunk." "What's it like being drunk?" "Like being awake…

— Tom Rachman

“He was a man who formed opinions as he spoke them, or perhaps afterward, requiring him to ramble at length to grasp…

— Tom Rachman

My own career started in New York at the 'Associated Press', a fast-paced news agency where we rarely had time for deep…

— Tom Rachman

We enjoy this illusion of continuity and we call it memory. Which explains, perhaps, why our worst fear isn't the end of…

— Tom Rachman

“I have to wonder if you're not being slightly naive here. I mean, are you saying that you want nothing for people?…

— Tom Rachman

“You can’t dread what you can’t experience. The only death we experience is that of other people. That’s as bad as it…

— Tom Rachman

“What's remarkable about fiction is that it places you in the unusual position of having no trajectory. You stand aside, motives abandoned…

— Tom Rachman

“She is a wonderful nerd, and he hopes this won't change.”

— Tom Rachman

“The purpose of clothing, as best he could tell, was to keep one unembarrassed and at the right temperature. If an outfit…

— Tom Rachman

“She has been dreading tomorrow ever since it happened the first time.”

— Tom Rachman

“I say that ambition is absurd, and yet I remain in its thrall. It’s like being a slave all your life, then…

— Tom Rachman

“literally: This word should be deleted. All too often, actions described as “literally” did not happen at all. As in, “He literally…

— Tom Rachman

“As touchy as cabaret performers and as stubborn as factory machinists....”

— Tom Rachman

“He was a man who formed opinions as he spoke them, or perhaps afterward, requiring him to ramble at length to grasp…

— Tom Rachman

“Miraculously, by the 10 P.M. deadline the paper had filled every line down every column, no matter the last-minute heart palpitations and…

— Tom Rachman

“...news' is often a polite way of saying 'editor's whim.”

— Tom Rachman