"Squeezing complicated lives into simple headlines."
In a book called Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, one of the characters is a retired war correspondent who has been around the world. He spent his life writing a bibliography of everyone he ever wrote about or read about. Every entry was one word:
Che Guevara: War
Tom Cruise: Money
Stephen Hawking: Astrophysics
Yasir Arafat: War
Martha Stewart: Money
Mahatma Gandhi: War ("But he was a pacifist," I said. "Right! War!")
"The worst of us are a long drawn out confession
The best of us are geniuses of compression."
You could never stop writing...it's something to think about.
"Squeezing complicated lives into simple headlines."
In a book called Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, one of the characters is a retired war correspondent who has been around the world. He spent his life writing a bibliography of everyone he ever wrote about or read about. Every entry was one word:
Che Guevara: War Tom Cruise: Money Stephen Hawking: Astrophysics Yasir Arafat: War Martha Stewart: Money Mahatma Gandhi: War ("But he was a pacifist," I said. "Right! War!")
"The worst of us are a long drawn out confession The best of us are geniuses of compression."
You could never stop writing...it's something to think about.