It shouldn’t be a matter of who deserves help or not, but of whether we want to be a country that allows its neediest to continue to need. Condemnation of individuals and their choices mutes all these other really important logistical questions about funding and budget and politics. Adrian Nicole LeBlanc Read Quote
A big part of reporting is just being present. You have to show up ten days in a row to get the one telling detail. Adrian Nicole LeBlanc Read Quote
What one reads in the newspaper and what one sees on the street are absolutely not the same. Adrian Nicole LeBlanc Read Quote
As a reader, when the writer gets sentimental, you drift, because there’s something fishy going on there. You recognize a moment that’s largely about the writer and the writer’s own need to believe in something that might not in fact exist. As a reader, you think, ‘Where did the story go? Where did the person I’m reading about go?’ Adrian Nicole LeBlanc Read Quote
There’s one thing I know for sure: When I’m most opinionated, my writing sucks. Adrian Nicole LeBlanc Read Quote
Adrian Leon LeBlanc, my dad and my namesake, his keen joy in observing people and the world is the reason I became a journalist. Adrian Nicole LeBlanc Read Quote
Serious loss brings you into one of the world’s silent fraternities. Adrian Nicole LeBlanc Read Quote
Illness transforms the things you most fear into the things you crave and would hold onto if you could. Adrian Nicole LeBlanc Read Quote
I like to say, ‘You get as much story as you can take.’ But you have to effectively render it. Adrian Nicole LeBlanc Read Quote
