Words matter. These are the best David Remnick Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
98% of the people who get the magazine say they read the cartoons first – and the other 2% are lying.
I’m a journalist – I’m not Robert Caro. I have a day job, and a pretty consuming one – a joyfully consuming one.
Capitalism in Russia has spawned far more Al Capones than Henry Fords.
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.
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.
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.
You know what writers say about their long books: If I had another year, the book would be half as long.
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.
Everybody has a cartoon of themselves. Mine is: I write very fast, and I’m ruthlessly efficient with my time.
Clearly independent journalists – domestic journalists – run a high risk if they dare to take on serious investigative work.
I’m not the slowest writer that you know.
I have to always remember, writing is really hard.
I left Gorbachev’s office thinking that everything about him was outsized: his achievements, his mistakes, and, now, his vanity and bitterness.
I actually have great hopes for the future.
Reform is not a period of retreat.
The Cold War was wildly expensive and consumed the entire globe.
I think dealing with the U.S. Senate is very different from dealing with the electorate.
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.
Not all political prisoners are innocents.
