Choices Quote by David Simon

The best I can hope for is that I might provoke a water cooler argument between you and somebody else. But it is not…

— David Simon

“Dune always said it’s because any serious journalism is subject to severe censorship.”

— Amy A. Bartol

I was not lying. I said things that later on seemed to be untrue.

— Anonymous

“As an editor, you develop a B.S. meter—an internal warning system that signals caution about journalism that doesn't feel trustworthy. Sometimes it's a quote…

— Jacob Weisberg

What I hold dear is well-known to all of my colleagues. And, really, The Times is the kind of place, the greatest journalism doesn't…

— Jill Abramson

When people say, Did you always want to be a writer?, I have to say no! I always WAS a writer.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Editing should be, especially in the case of old writers, a counseling rather than a collaborating task. The tendency of the writer-editor to collaborate…

— James Thurber

The highest compliment one can give a writer is not to say that one wholeheartedly agrees with his observations, but that he provoked -…

— Glenn Greenwald

“The truth was much simpler. When do you become a writer? “When you say you are,” he said. I”

— Jeff Goins

“I recently heard a great writer say that an essential element in the life of a writer is to have been an outsider in…

— Elizabeth Lesser

I heard a white writer say, 'Oh, I'd never put black people in my writing, I'm afraid I would offend someone by doing it…

— Alice Mattison

I don't think the function of writing, at least for me as a fiction writer, is to say to people, "Here's the answer." It's…

— Mohsin Hamid