David Remnick Quotes

• 98% of the people who get the magazine say they read the cartoons first – and the other 2% are lying.

  David Remnick

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  Tags in People, Magazine

• A.J. Liebling, one of my heroes, used to say that he could write better than anyone who wrote faster, and faster than anyone who could write better. I’m one nine-hundredth as good as Liebling, but that principle may slightly apply.

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• Capitalism in Russia has spawned far more Al Capones than Henry Fords.

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• Clearly independent journalists – domestic journalists – run a high risk if they dare to take on serious investigative work.

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  Tags in Independent

• Everybody has a cartoon of themselves. Mine is: I write very fast, and I’m ruthlessly efficient with my time.

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  Tags in Time, Write

• I actually have great hopes for the future.

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• I have to always remember, writing is really hard.

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• I left Gorbachev’s office thinking that everything about him was outsized: his achievements, his mistakes, and, now, his vanity and bitterness.

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• I understand the difference between journalism and scholarship that comes 20 years later.

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• I’m a journalist – I’m not Robert Caro. I have a day job, and a pretty consuming one – a joyfully consuming one.

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  Topics in Job

  Tags in Journalist

• I’m interested in Russian language, culture, history… and I lived there, for four years, as a reporter for the Washington Post and have visited many times since.

   

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• I’m not the slowest writer that you know.

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• If the story is good enough, if it’s imaginative enough, if it’s moving enough it is going to reach deeper than the level of sheer information and change somebody’s life two degrees. That is an enormous achievement.

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  Topics in Life

  Tags in Good

• Most magazines have peak moments. They live on, they do just okay, or they die. ‘The New Yorker’ has had a very different kind of existence.

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• My time as editor has been overlapped by a crisis – a prolonged, labyrinthine, tragic, seemingly non-ending crisis – that involves the prehistory of 9/11, 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan, fraught histories between the United States and almost everyone.

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• Not all political prisoners are innocents.

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• Reform is not a period of retreat.

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• Russian is such a tough and complex language that I am happy enough to understand everything and read most things pretty well, but, without constant practice, my speech is not what I wish it was, and I would sooner write in crayon than write a letter in Russian.

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• The Cold War was wildly expensive and consumed the entire globe.

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• The world is a crazy, beautiful, ugly complicated place, and it keeps moving on from crisis to strangeness to beauty to weirdness to tragedy. The caravan keeps moving on, and the job of the longform writer or filmmaker or radio broadcaster is to stop – is to pause – and when the caravan goes away, that’s when this stuff comes.

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  Tags in Crazy

David Remnick (27)

Birth:	29th October, 1958
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Editor, Journalist, Writer

About

David Remnick is an American journalist, writer, and magazine editor. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1994 for his book, Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire. Remnick has been editor of The New Yorker magazine since 1998. He was named "Editor of the Year" by Advertising Age in 2000.

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