Quotes About Insight

Fiction is a report from the interior.

My entire career, in fiction or nonfiction, I have reported and written about people who are not like me.

I have lived in Chile since 1996 and reported from Chile since 1989, so I know the nation better than my native Massachusetts.

I'm a reporter by nature, I want to know everything.

I've always thought of myself as a reporter.

It's astonishing what you learn and feel and see along the way. That's why a reporter's job, as you know, is such a joy.

Well, one of the things I discovered in the course of looking back and writing about what I saw in my memory is that I was a closely observant person long before I became a reporter.

I'm not a war reporter.

What bothers me is the lack of self-awareness. I don't know if I have ever met a group less self-aware than political reporters.

Photographers do more assignments than reporters do, so they know their communities better.

I've learned that the best political reporters never make predictions!

Reporters have to use their imagination, really put themselves in the shoes of the person they want to interview.

We were just expressing stuff that happens in the ghetto, just being like reporters.

Reporting provides reminders that things are always more complicated than you think.

It's no longer just reporting the headlines of the day, but trying to put the headlines into some context and to add some perspective into what they mean.

I think that as reporters we certainly bring to bear our own set of experiences, our backgrounds, to our reporting.

I don't write beautifully - I just write reports about our condition.

I try to spend a lot of time with people outside my direct reports. The view from the top is totally distorted. If you only spend time with your directs, you have no perspective on what's really going on.

An actress spends a lifetime observing people. You build up a mental library. No, not a library. Make that a repository.

Moo may represent an idea, but only the cow knows.

There are a number of fascinating stories included in 'The Human Face of Big Data' that represent some of the most innovative applications of data that are shaping our future.

'Dreamsongs' allows me to show the scope of my writing - with personal commentary that puts the works in context and includes some autobiographical details intended to reveal how each piece came to be, what it represents, and how it has formed, or been informed by, my philosophy of writing.

I didn't really feel I was being hurt, but you could feel it.

Sometimes it hurts to hear the truth, but you need it.