I understand the difference between journalism and scholarship that comes 20 years later. David Remnick Read Quote
I’m a journalist – I’m not Robert Caro. I have a day job, and a pretty consuming one – a joyfully consuming one. David Remnick Read Quote
You know what writers say about their long books: If I had another year, the book would be half as long. David Remnick Read Quote
Clearly independent journalists – domestic journalists – run a high risk if they dare to take on serious investigative work. David Remnick Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote