"Journalists should give readers and viewers the facts clearly and prominently without misleading balance. That’s not always easy."
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Interview With David Baldacci, Author of The Collectors
"I don't write every day nor do I have a 'words per day' goal. That is just too artificial."
Read More »Barbara Walters Claims Dog Spoke to Her: This is Journalism?
James Frey and Jonathan Karr are starting to look more credible in my mind than Barbara Walters.
Read More »Interview With Lisa Phillips, Author of Public Radio: Behind the Voices
"Radio is invisible, and it keeps a certain aura of mystery."
Read More »Interview With Michael Connelly, Author of Crime Beat
How real-life crime stories feed a fiction writer's muse.
Read More »Interview With Carolyn Parkhurst, Author of Lost and Found
"I always have this sense of, 'Uh oh, they’re talking about it like it’s a real book.'"
Read More »Pity Poor Pluto: Problems, Perspectives, and Planet Envy
Pluto is the Rodney Dangerfield of the solar system, the object in space that just gets no respect.
Read More »Interview with George Pelecanos, author of The Night Gardener
"I am proudly a crime novelist. But it would be nice if my tombstone simply read, 'He wrote good books'."
Read More »Interview With James Siegel, author of Deceit
"If you can't put yourself in your characters’ shoes and on some level feel what they're feeling, give up writing fiction."
Read More »Interview: Toby Young, Author of The Sound of No Hands Clapping: A Memoir
“Failure just seems to come naturally to me."
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