If you're a reporter, the easiest thing in the world is to get a story. The hardest thing is to verify. The old sins were about getting something wrong, that was a cardinal sin. The new sin is to be boring.

  • -- David Halberstam 大卫哈伯斯塔姆

如果你是一个记者,世界上最简单的事情就是得到一个故事。最难的是验证。以前的罪是犯了错误,这是主要的罪。新的罪是无聊。

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I never take ideas from the headlines. I feel that if a story is good enough, a real story that is, then it's already been covered by the media, and if it's not good enough, why would I want to bother with it?

我从不从头条新闻中汲取灵感。我觉得如果一个故事足够好,一个真实的故事,那么它就已经被媒体报道过了,如果它不够好,我为什么还要为它费心呢?

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

经典语录是全世界文坛人士的口头禅。

Sometimes you can tell a large story with a tiny subject.

有时候你可以用一个小话题来讲述一个大故事。

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

想愚弄世界,就说真话吧。