Backgrounds Quote by Jess Walter

I come from a newspaper background, so maybe I'm attuned to current events.

— Jess Walter

I always wanted to use my newspaper background in a novel.

— Mary Kay Andrews

I wonder if I would have been less organic of a designer without my background. Maybe I would be more academic about designing, more…

— Francisco Costa

Will Rogers…used to come out with a newspaper and pretend he was a yokel criticizing the intellectuals who ran the government. I come out…

— Mort Sahl

I'm in the storytelling business, and so you're always drawn to the unusual. And early on, I discovered that's the easiest way to tell…

— Malcolm Gladwell

I probably would have gone the M.F.A. route except I was a dad at 19, and it made more sense to go to work…

— Jess Walter

Bond is the longest-running franchise ever and there's a reason for that: they are action movies but they are also touched by current events…

— Javier Bardem

“Remind me," Jubal said to her, "to write a popular article on the compulsive reading of news. The theme will be that most neuroses…

— Robert A. Heinlein

“To the extent that propaganda is based on current news, it cannot permit time for thought or reflection. A man caught up in the…

— Jacques Ellul

“Because history became his (Keenan's) genuine passion, he tended to see the world in terms of deep historical forces that, in his mind, formed…

— David Halberstam

I hate recording all the shows for the week in one day, because I want to be able to mention current events and pop…

— Gary Vaynerchuk

“For some politics has become a battle ground that allows them to vent their frustrations, while at the same time hide behind the anonymity…

— Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba