Author: John Pomfret

Quotes

The desire to become a journalist came really because I very much like living abroad, and like to travel, and wanted to be paid for it.

The desire to become a journalist came really because I very much like living abroad, and like to travel, and wanted to be paid for it.

- John Pomfret

Good journalism, I think, represents life and if you try to organize something too neatly it usually blows up in your face and doesn't really happen the way you want it to.

Good journalism, I think, represents life and if you try to organize something too neatly it usually blows up in your face and doesn't really happen the way you want it to.

- John Pomfret

I was posted to China in the summer of 1988, which was the greatest time ever, I think, to have been in China.

I was posted to China in the summer of 1988, which was the greatest time ever, I think, to have been in China.

- John Pomfret

I grew up in New York City in the late '70s, at a time when U.S. - China relations were something that was on the front page of The New York Times on a regular basis.

I grew up in New York City in the late '70s, at a time when U.S. - China relations were something that was on the front page of The New York Times on a regular basis.

- John Pomfret

My main form of transportation at that time was a bicycle, because bicycles could move though the crowd.

My main form of transportation at that time was a bicycle, because bicycles could move though the crowd.

- John Pomfret

The one indication that I got that I was doing the right job in Bosnia was that at different periods of time all the factions came down very hard on me.

The one indication that I got that I was doing the right job in Bosnia was that at different periods of time all the factions came down very hard on me.

- John Pomfret

I had my life threatened by Bosnian Serbs on numerous occasions.

I had my life threatened by Bosnian Serbs on numerous occasions.

- John Pomfret

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