My Marine experience helped shape who I am now personally and professionally, and I am grateful for that on an almost daily basis. – Jim Lehrer
Ive traveled around the country and I read local newspapers and all of that, and its a sad, sad thing to go from city to city and see the small newspapers and theyre tiny. Theyre tiny not only in size but also in scope. – Jim Lehrer
I have great faith in the intelligence of the American viewer and reader to put two and two together and come up with four. – Jim Lehrer
In my case, I was covering politics in Texas as a newspaper man in the 1960s. – Jim Lehrer
We have that illusion that we are deciding what to make a character do, in order to convey our message or something like that. But, at least in my experience, you are often more like a river-rafting guide whos been paid a bonus to purposely steer your clients into the roughest possible water. – George Saunders