64 Quotes by David Remnick

I understand the difference between journalism and scholarship that comes 20 years later.

I'm not the slowest writer that you know.

If the story is good enough, if it's imaginative enough, if it's moving enough it is going to reach deeper than the level of sheer information and change somebody's life two degrees. That is an enormous achievement.

Clearly independent journalists - domestic journalists - run a high risk if they dare to take on serious investigative work.

Capitalism in Russia has spawned far more Al Capones than Henry Fords.

I'm a journalist - I'm not Robert Caro. I have a day job, and a pretty consuming one - a joyfully consuming one.

Most magazines have peak moments. They live on, they do just okay, or they die. 'The New Yorker' has had a very different kind of existence.

To some extent, the mainstream's absence means the Tea Party is the Republican Party.

I have to always remember, writing is really hard.