"With the audience I write for, I want to make sure that the reader is eagerly turning every page. I want each of my books to be an absorbing reading experience, an authentic piece of literature. The worst thing that can happen is for a book to have a chilling effect on the reader, to have a kid pick it up and look at a bunch of footnotes and think, No, I'm not going to read this, it's too intimidating."

-- Russell Freedman

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“I always work on my abs, every single day. As Miss Universe, exercising your abdominal muscles is mandatory!”
“Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else - by color.”
“The Voice did not consider itself a conventional magazine. It took me awhile to realize that it was named The Voice for a reason. They wanted voices. At the time, good magazine stories were still believed to be written in the third person based on the false belief they were more objective. Of course some conventional stories require third person, but in the really interesting stories - the ones I got do to at The Voice and Esquire - were about subjectivity, subjectivities.”
“Jean Kirkpatrick [is] the chief sadist-in-residence of the Reagan Administration”
“It is time for conservatives to do what they do best and insist that a wasteful, inefficient government program gets off the books. Small government and the death penalty don't go together.”
“I was too young to take it all in. I was too young to even realize I was young. I was just living my life.”
“You're getting old when you see a girl who looks like someone you used to know, and it turns out to be her daughter.”
“Each of us holds human destiny in our hands. It will be completely determined by how the mind feels about itself.”

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