David Remnick

I'm a journalist - I'm not Robert Caro. I have a day job, and a pretty consuming one - a joyfully consuming one. ↗

— David Remnick

#day #i #job #journalist #joyfully

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. ↗

— David Remnick

#four #history #i #interested #language

I'm not the slowest writer that you know. ↗

— David Remnick

#know #slowest #writer #you

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. ↗

— David Remnick

#different #different kind #existence #had #just

Nature is cold, wet, hard and unforgiving. ↗

— David Remnick

#hard #nature #unforgiving #wet

Not all political prisoners are innocents. ↗

— David Remnick

#political #political prisoners #prisoners

Reform is not a period of retreat. ↗

— David Remnick

#reform #retreat

The Cold War was wildly expensive and consumed the entire globe. ↗

— David Remnick

#cold war #consumed #entire #expensive #globe

There is no single field of activity, not a single institution, free of the most brutal sort of corruption. Russia has bred a world-class mafia. ↗

— David Remnick

#bred #brutal #corruption #field #free

To some extent, the mainstream's absence means the Tea Party is the Republican Party. ↗

— David Remnick

#extent #mainstream #means #party #republican