Archives Quote by Molly Antopol

Once biographical information contaminates your consciousness, it's impossible to erase it and look at someone's work the same way again.

— Cass McCombs

I was too busy doing my job and living my life to spend time keeping notes for some future volume of memoirs.

— Pierre Trudeau

I guess because I'm a washed-up journalist, I always do a lot of research.

— Mary Kay Andrews

I love research so much that I do an enormous amount; it helps put off the moment of starting to write the story.

— Alan Garner

I do think I was trying to entertain the reader more than I was trying to purge myself.

— Curtis Sittenfeld

What you're normally doing as a writer is trying to find the narrative.

— Joan Didion

I see myself as a journalist reporting neglected stories about our past and trying to bring rigor, reason and intuition to the quest.

— Graham Hancock

It was this fascination with hidden lives, I suspect, that led me to journalism; seeking to uncover the truth about people became a job.

— Fiona Barton

I used to retain information extremely fast, so perhaps it's hardening a bit and I don't take the impression as well as I used…

— Marina Warner

It's funny how sometimes historians sneer at journalists, yet they depend on us in the future for the material that they mine. You realize…

— Lawrence Wright

As the new work fills my notebooks, I've come to realize that the characters in my stories were so real because I really did…

— Charles de Lint

You can't rewrite the history books; you can't eliminate the impact of my work and my characters.

— Rob Liefeld