Bigfoot Quote by Jonathan Yardley

One of my pet theories is that readers have built-in BS detectors that enable them to recognize insincerity in writers. David [Halberstam] was sincerity…

— Jonathan Yardley

“A New York times reporter wrote about David Wilkerson,"He was the model of absolute simplicity, directness and non-sophistication. He sought out gang members, drug…

— Gary Wilkerson

I was very much influenced by a great book by the scholar Neil Richards called Intellectual Privacy, that [Louis] Brandeis changed his mind on…

— Jeffrey Rosen

As far as which writers embody this form of gentle power - Tobias Wolff, for sure. His persona and his writing both share an…

— George Saunders

The great man who gives a true transcript of his mind fascinates and instructs. Most writers suppress individuality. They wish to please the public.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

“Parsons was Winston’s fellow employee at the Ministry of Truth. He was a fattish but active man of paralyzing stupidity, a mass of imbecile…

— George Orwell

Farber had a huge effect on me as a writer. I don't mean I write like him. Farber is, first of all, a great…

— Greil Marcus

“I loathe him. He stands for everything I hate in Washington. The right schools, houses in Georgetown, farms in Virginia, quiet meetings at their…

— Robert Ludlum

I am drawn to characters so full of internal contradictions. Idi Amin was one. I loved writing him.

— Peter Morgan

I read The Conspiracy Against the Human Race and found it incredibly powerful writing. For me as a reader, it was less impactful as…

— Nic Pizzolatto

“The stories didn't seem to care who he was or what he could do; it didn't matter. In their world, he wasn't alone. In…

— Estevan Vega

When you write fiction, there were things about Washington that I've experienced and wanted to write about, including the swamping nature of it, the…

— Jake Tapper