About Quote by Seymour Hersh Download Open image “Writing about corporate America had sapped my energy, disappointed the editors, and unnerved me.” — Seymour Hersh ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare About America Corporate america Editors Energy Writing
I think there's an element to this business that writers especially are overlooked in many ways and this made everybody kind of look at… — Edward Allen Bernero Copy Share Image
Writing went from being a calling to being a job. Business ruined things. It became like making sausages in a sausage factory. — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share Image
“Most—but not all—of the writers I knew then were young men who cherished their independence, were unconcerned about job security, and were serious about their writing. They didn’t want to be anyone’s employee if it interfered with their writing. They were halfway or all the way outside the mainstream and were often not interested in becoming part of the burgeoning… — Sterling Lord Copy Share
I got a rejection letter from an editor at HarperCollins, who included a report from his professional reader. This report shredded my first-born novel, laughed at my phrasing, twirled my lacy pretensions around and gobbed into the seething mosh pit of my stolen clichés. As I read the report, the world became very quiet and stopped rotating. What poisoned me… — David Mitchell Copy Share
If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers. — Irvin S. Cobb Copy Share Image
I don't have anything against corporate America. I mean, I guess there's something about living in a capitalist society that can get kind of… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
The story in America was a vibrant, bottoms-up democracy subverted by corporations and financial speculators. Those people now control much of the narrative. They… — Kalle Lasn Copy Share Image
I felt devalued and disrespected. The energy behind it felt disingenuous and motivated by corporate profit. — Lisa Bonet Copy Share Image
I did not want to write, but I had to resign myself to it in the end. — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Corporate America doesn't give a damn about you. It does not care about your feelings. It wants productivity, and whoever doesn't produce is going… — Stephen A. Smith Copy Share Image
If Bush had gone into Iraq for cynical reasons, we could cut our losses now. What's frightening is that he did it for ideological… — Seymour Hersh Copy Share Image
At a meeting in her office in the late summer of 2002, months before the war in Iraq, prisoner abuse at Guantanamo is discussed.… — Seymour Hersh Copy Share Image
Using words to make other people less big made me feel bigger, though the psychological dimension to that... well, I don't want to explore… — Seymour Hersh Copy Share Image
We'd be better off if the whole purpose of the adventure in Iraq was, say, to protect Israel or to protect the flow of… — Seymour Hersh Copy Share Image
The idea of photographing an Arab man naked and having him simulate homosexual activity, and having an American GI woman in the photographs, is… — Seymour Hersh Copy Share Image
There's been a lot of talk about how bad the reporting was, particularly with the George W. Bush Administration after 9/11. The general assumption,… — Seymour Hersh Copy Share Image
If George W. Bush had gone into Iraq for cynical reasons, we could cut our losses now. What's frightening is that he did it… — Seymour Hersh Copy Share Image
I don't think I've ever met a public official that didn't think he was doing the right thing. I can't think of one. — Seymour Hersh Copy Share Image
How can you have a security guarantee? The Europeans can give their security guarantees to Iran all they want in return for their stopping… — Seymour Hersh Copy Share Image
If you ask an introvert a question, wait until she thinks about it. Introverts think before speaking, not through speaking. If you want to… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
I talk to my mates about our kids, being too tired and being worn out. — Holly Willoughby Copy Share Image
With 'Pretty Girls,' I saw the opportunity to talk not just about crime but what crime leaves behind. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
I write about presidents. That means I write about guys - so far. I'm interested in the people closest to them, the people they… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
That's something a lot of folks don't know about me - I'm pretty darn funny. — Michael Jai White Copy Share Image
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