5 Quotes by Jonathan Yardley

The trouble with free speech is that it insists on living up to its name.

Reading it now for the seventh or eighth time, I am more convinced than ever not merely that The Great Gatsby is Fitzgerald’s masterwork but that it is the American masterwork, the finest work of fiction by any of this country’s writers.

David Halberstam often wrote about the powerful, but his real sympathies lay with ordinary people. He was very uncomfortable with bigfoot Washington journalism – he thought it was lazy and self-serving.

Amis is a force unto himself There is, quite simply, no one else like him.

Nothing except love itself touches us so intimately and forcibly as a good story told exactly right.