Quotes About Impact

One of the biggest complaints readers have about my work is that I don't tell them often enough what they can do. I do think this is an area where journalism sometimes falls short. We describe a really grim situation but don't really explain to people what they can do about it.

Don't send out a newsletter just to send out a newsletter. One newsletter a year that is really interesting is more beneficial than 12 that are boring. If you write two or three boring newsletters in a row, your readers will start to think you write boring books.

When a bank calls in a loan, it obviously hurts the customer in question. But it also adversely affects other banks that have lent to this borrower. They are now less likely to be repaid and so can't as readily lend to their own customers.

This goes to show how much of an impact culture has. Even in countries where online access is readily available, there may not be the same expectation for women.

If whatever we do changes one person's opinion, gets one person's readiness better than it was before, or at the end of the day entertains people, than we've done our job.

All over the country, they're reading about me, and the story doesn't center on me being gay. It's just about a gay person who is doing his job.

I don't read horror, ever. When I was 15, I made the mistake of reading part of 'The Exorcist.' It was the first and last horror book I've ever opened.

I've been reading a lot about what the Internet does to our brains.

I did not learn the flaws of the criminal-justice system in law school or college or by reading about it. I grew up knowing the flaws and how it was disproportionately impacting the black community. It's not academic for me.

I can't consciously explain how people feel after reading my books. All is too personal.

If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you read it quite quickly, your heart going pitty-pat, pitty-pat. But when you finish, that's it. You're not going to think about it much afterward, apart from the odd nightmare. You're not going to read that book again.

It's funny that I got to do 'On the Road' because the thing that had the biggest impact on me growing up was reading books. I was very inspired by the book and this spirit of Dean Moriarty and how envious we all are of somebody who can be that carefree.

A writer's definitive death is when no one reads his books anymore. That's the final death.

I think 'Beasts of No Nation' is a novel that hopefully will affect each person who reads it in a different way.

I'd rather have just one person who reads and feels my work deeply than hundreds of thousands who read it but don't really care about.

It took Jimmy Carter to give us Ronald Reagan.

I still remember March 31, 1981, when a deeply disturbed John Hinckley Jr. took aim at President Ronald Reagan and fired shots that hospitalized the Commander-in-Chief and two others, and left his Press Secretary James Brady paralyzed for life.

Nothing could make me forget what the Reagan years had actually been like.

I have been hung in effigy by the gay community for a long time, from when I was on President Reagan's first AIDS commission.

I don't think anybody is - no one could compare to Ronald Reagan, because he was the right man at the right time.

The Reagan Revolution has had no second act.

Here's one measure of the man and the scope of his achievement: No serious historian will be able to write about 20th-century America without discussing Bill Buckley. Before Buckley, there was no conservative movement. After Buckley, there was Ronald Reagan.

The effects of climate change are real and must be acted on.

Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.