There are a couple of ideas for features that I would love to do. They happen to be comedies. David Simon Read Quote
I had a great editor, Rebecca Corbett, from the time I was a city reporter right through to the years I worked on the ‘Sun’s’ enterprise reporting team. David Simon Read Quote
I would be lying if I said the journalism doesn’t reflect my own choices as a reporter and a writer: what to say, what to emphasize, how to say it, what is true or untrue. David Simon Read Quote
One of the sad things about contemporary journalism is that it actually matters very little. The world now is almost inured to the power of journalism. The best journalism would manage to outrage people. And people are less and less inclined to outrage. David Simon Read Quote
What writer wants to make compromises with story? Story is the only reason you’re in it. David Simon Read Quote
The trick to making a story matter is that every now and then, somebody you care about has to go. If it’s somebody that you don’t care about, then it doesn’t really have – the stakes aren’t there. But if you do that every now and then, then the story matters to people. And there are actual stakes involved, emotional stakes. David Simon Read Quote
To be told you’ve won a MacArthur fellowship is very flattering and gratifying personally. David Simon Read Quote
On a practical level I’m a TV producer and storyteller who’s gone about as long as you can go without achieving a mass audience. David Simon Read Quote
There came this point where I sat down with all my notebooks and I had to start to write, when I thought: this whole notion of writing for the person who understands nothing, the average reader… He has to die! I can’t have him in my head. And so the person I started writing for was the homicide detective. David Simon Read Quote
A little anger is a good thing if it isn’t on your own behalf, if it’s for others deserving of your anger, your empathy. David Simon Read Quote
