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David Remnick Quotes

David Remnick quotes

American Journalist October 29, 1958

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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. David Remnick
Russian is such a tough and complex language that I am happy enough to understand everything and read most things pretty well, but, without constant practice, my speech is not what I wish it was, and I would sooner write in crayon than write a letter in Russian. David Remnick
The world is a crazy, beautiful, ugly complicated place, and it keeps moving on from crisis to strangeness to beauty to weirdness to tragedy. The caravan keeps moving on, and the job of the longform writer or filmmaker or radio broadcaster is to stop - is to pause - and when the caravan goes away, that's when this stuff comes. David Remnick
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. David Remnick
David Remnick quote: "Nature is cold, wet, hard and unforgiving."
Nature is cold, wet, hard and unforgiving. David Remnick
David Remnick quote: "Everybody has a cartoon of themselves. Mine is: I write very..."
Everybody has a cartoon of themselves. Mine is: I write very fast, and I'm ruthlessly efficient with my time. David Remnick
David Remnick quote: "I actually have great hopes for the future."
I actually have great hopes for the future. David Remnick
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. David Remnick
My time as editor has been overlapped by a crisis - a prolonged, labyrinthine, tragic, seemingly non-ending crisis - that involves the prehistory of 9/11, 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan, fraught histories between the United States and almost everyone. David Remnick
I left Gorbachev's office thinking that everything about him was outsized: his achievements, his mistakes, and, now, his vanity and bitterness. David Remnick
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. David Remnick
David Remnick quote: "Clearly independent journalists - domestic journalists - run a..."
Clearly independent journalists - domestic journalists - run a high risk if they dare to take on serious investigative work. David Remnick
David Remnick quote: "98% of the people who get the magazine say they read the..."
98% of the people who get the magazine say they read the cartoons first - and the other 2% are lying. David Remnick
There is no single field of activity, not a single institution, free of the most brutal sort of corruption. Russia has bred a world-class mafia. David Remnick
David Remnick quote: "You know what writers say about their long books: If I had..."
You know what writers say about their long books: If I had another year, the book would be half as long. David Remnick

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