My career as a magazine writer was largely prefaced on the idea of curiosity, to go on adventures and weasel my way into the lives of people that I admire.
John HodgmanMost people presume my mustache is not real because it's much darker than my regular hair.
John HodgmanPart of the transaction between writer and reader is the pleasure of building a community and encouraging people to play along.
John HodgmanWhat I've discovered more recently is copies of books that I didn't represent, but that my boss represented when I assisted her on the dollar pile. I won't mention any names, but it is this profoundly bittersweet time of realizing, "Oh, I had a wonderful time working on this book and now it is a dollar relic on the side of the road."
John Hodgman