64 Quotes by David Remnick

Very rarely is there a spike in news-stand sales.

I'm interested in Russian language, culture, history... and I lived there, for four years, as a reporter for the Washington Post and have visited many times since.

You know what writers say about their long books: If I had another year, the book would be half as long.

If this day means anything, it means that you are now in the contingent of the responsible. You must be kind, yes, but you must also look beyond your own house. We're depending on you for your efforts and your vision. We are depending on your eye and your imagination to identify what wrongs exist and persist, and on your hands, your backs, your efforts, to right them.

Speaking to the subject is the most overrated thing in journalism,

I think dealing with the U.S. Senate is very different from dealing with the electorate.

Not all political prisoners are innocents.

Nature is cold, wet, hard and unforgiving.

A.J. Liebling, one of my heroes, used to say that he could write better than anyone who wrote faster, and faster than anyone who could write better. I'm one nine-hundredth as good as Liebling, but that principle may slightly apply.