If you're a reporter, the easiest thing in the world is to get a story. The hardest thing is to verify. The old sins were about getting something wrong, that was a cardinal sin. The new sin is to be boring.
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Nationality: American Type: Journalist Born: April 10, 1934 Death: April 23, 2007 |
“All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!”
“Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.”