Words matter. These are the best Amy Chozick Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Every major life decision in my 20s and 30s – when to get married, where to buy an apartment, whether to freeze my eggs until after the election – had revolved around a single looming question: What about Hillary Clinton?
In 2007, I went straight from Tokyo to Iowa to join Hillary Clinton’s traveling press. I felt like a foreigner there, too. I remember thinking, ‘Americans are huge.’
The Fox News makeup treatment is unlike any other in journalism. It involves false lashes, layers and layers of foundation, and heavy applications of come-hither lip gloss.
I’d spent my first 12 years in New York in an East Village walk-up. The upstairs neighbor was the cowboy from the Village People.
Let’s just say I didn’t get invited to a lot of frat parties.
Part of a campaign reporter’s job is allowing yourself to be used.
I’ve always been a voracious reader.
I read contrived memoirs by presidential candidates. For every ‘Dreams From My Father’ – Barack Obama’s honest, literary portrayal of his biracial upbringing – there were a dozen cautious, formulaic vanity projects by politicians.
Everything I saw in Japan was a story to me.
You can’t write a book about Hillary Clinton and not anticipate some blowback, so I always knew it was going to be something.
Women get exhausted and beat down, and you just want to cry.
It’s fun to play a part in the process of helping to inform readers about their political leaders.
Growing up in San Antonio, I was the dork at the Friday night football games with my head buried in a book – Jack Kerouac or Oscar Wilde, years before I really understood them.
Throughout her career, many women would view Mrs. Clinton as an imperfect vessel for the feminist cause. She was a Yale-educated lawyer who, at the height of the 1970s women’s movement, moved to Arkansas to put her own ambitions on hold in furtherance of her husband’s career.
I do think, with any beat, it helps to establish a basic level of comfort and cordiality, especially if you plan to ask uncomfortable questions. Sitting down in person for a meal or a coffee can help that.
I had been a foreign correspondent in Japan for the ‘Wall Street Journal’ when my editor there became Washington bureau chief – this was 2007 – and he said, ‘How would you like to go to Iowa and cover Hillary Clinton?’ I was 28. I went to Iowa.
I just wanted to tell good stories that helped explain the world to people.
I grew up in a quiet suburb in South Texas, and loved the in-your-faceness of the East Village. In the early days, when I was still unemployed, I’d lie on a bench in Tompkins Square Park perusing the listings in the ‘Village Voice’ for a place to live.
I always chose the byline.
