David Maraniss Quotes

• Natural politicians are skilled actors, recreating reality, adjusting and ad-libbing, synthesizing the scenes, saying the same thing over and over again and making it seem that they are saying it for the first time.

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• He is a congenital campaigner.

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• At 34, he fit the ironic description of the quintessential Rhodes Scholar: someone with a great future behind him.

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• It is…classic Bill Clinton, sincere and deceptive at the same time, requiring a careful reading between the lines.

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• I discovered in writing the biography of Bill Clinton that it is actually easier to write a biography of someone who is dead. Although you can’t interview them, you have a fuller perspective on their whole life after they’re gone and people are more willing to talk about them.

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• I look for two things when I am about to launch into a book. First, there has to be a dramatic arc to the story itself that will carry me, and the reader, from beginning to end. Second, the story has to weave through larger themes that can illuminate the world of the subject.

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• I said that I’m only there to write the truth, I’m not going to cover anything up, but I’ll put everything in context and get as close to the truth of this person as I can.

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• I want my books to last, to stand the test of time, and to do that I focus on the forces that shape the subject – the cultural and sociological geography – to capture them in a way that will explain them no matter what they are doing.

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• I want to write for history, not for the moment.

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• It’s hard to know exactly how people develop the characters they do. There could be people from humble beginnings that turn into jerks. Some characteristics are just part of that special soul of that human being.

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• My basic philosophy is that no human being is a saint.

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Birth:	1949
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Editor, Journalist

About

David Maraniss was born in Detroit, Michigan. He is an American journalist and author, currently serving as an associate-editor for The Washington Post. He received a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1993 for his coverage of then-candidate Bill Clinton during the 1992 United States presidential election. The Post assigned him the job of biographer for their coverage of 2008 presidential candidate Barack Obama.

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