A staff can be no better than the man it serves.

With the marketing pressures driving the book world today, it's much easier to get the author of a memoir on a television show than a serious novelist.

These days there's all too much coverage of pesudo-events about extraordinarily inauthentic people doing inauthentic things.

Being a professional means doing your job on the days you don't want to do it

I have a great faith in the strength and the resilience in the American people.

Physically, rowing was remarkable resistant to the camera... the camera liked power exhibited more openly, and the power of the oarsmen [is] exhibited in far too controlled a setting. Besides, the camera liked to focus on individuals, and except for the single scull, crew was sport without faces.

There are only two kinds of stories in the world: those about which I do not care to write as many as 600 words, and those about which I would like to write many more than 600 words. But there is nothing about which I would like to write exactly 600 words.