Author: Tom Rachman

Quotes

The strength of fiction is not in reading about yourself, but in reading about other people.

The strength of fiction is not in reading about yourself, but in reading about other people.

- Tom Rachman

Art doesn't spring from the muses alone, but from hard work.

Art doesn't spring from the muses alone, but from hard work.

- Tom Rachman

I hadn't been a particularly precocious reader, but everybody else in my family was.

I hadn't been a particularly precocious reader, but everybody else in my family was.

- Tom Rachman

I went to the University of Toronto to study the history and theory of film, in the back of my mind thinking I'd go to NYU film school and see if I could make a career of it.

I went to the University of Toronto to study the history and theory of film, in the back of my mind thinking I'd go to NYU film school and see if I could make a career of it.

- Tom Rachman

My own career started in New York at the 'Associated Press', a fast-paced news agency where we rarely had time for deep reporting.

My own career started in New York at the 'Associated Press', a fast-paced news agency where we rarely had time for deep reporting.

- Tom Rachman

That's a paradox I've noticed, too: The news business held little romance for me, yet writing about it somehow stirred my affections.

That's a paradox I've noticed, too: The news business held little romance for me, yet writing about it somehow stirred my affections.

- Tom Rachman

When I left Toronto and entered journalism in the late 1990s, I had many notions about the news business, nearly all of them wrong, as it turned out.

When I left Toronto and entered journalism in the late 1990s, I had many notions about the news business, nearly all of them wrong, as it turned out.

- Tom Rachman

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