If you’re not pitching, stop bitching

One of the great myths about war is that there is a ground zero, a center stage, where the terrible forces unleashed by it can be witnessed, recounted, and replayed like the launching of a...

Reporters trade in pain. It sells papers. Everyone knows that.

Le sabordage de l’ me devrait être enseigné dans les écoles de marine”.Le Voyageur de l’inquiétude

…the ravenous monsters men called reporters; sub-human vermin who feed off misery and created it wherever they went.

Nous sommes tous des naufragés de l’ me vois-tu, la peinture n’est que le reflet de ce chagrin, antichambre de la grande joie à venir.”Nous sommes tous des naufragés de l’ me vois-tu, la peinture...

When I left her office, I felt like she’d gut-punched me, brushed me off, slapped me back and forth, gave me a cool compress to put on my cheeks, cold-cocked me with a stiff uppercut...

The sea of reporters on her lawn made Loretta Brooks do a double take.

Countless generations have set out convinced that they would succeed where other had failed – that’s where lawyers and reporters come from, you know. They’re the cynical corpses of idealistic young people who thought the...

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.

A burro is an ass. A burrow is a hole in the ground. A reporter should know the difference.

I totally alienated some reporters as I retreated.

Photographers and reporters are mostly after me. They want to know what I read and what I’m like and I don’t really know myself, so how can I tell them?

Illium, with his wings of silver-kissed blue and a face designed to seduce both males and females, not to mention his ability to do the most impossible acrobatics in the air, would provide a worthy...

Now listen,’ said George angrily, ‘I’ve been in a newspaper office all evening and I know better than you what’s going on.”Nonsense. If there’s one place in the world where nobody knows what’s going on,...

What most people want to keep under wraps (from reporters) is trivial: petty jealousies, professional feuds, etc. By contrast, most of the things they have thought about most seriously all their lives they are perfectly...

In their eyes, Eve saw the wolf gleam. The story was the prey, ratings the trophy.

Quit your bitching, if you’re not pitching

I know my career is going badly because I’m being quoted correctly.