Michael Finkel Quotes

I never do formal interviews. I don't use a tape recorder. I take notes but occasionally.

Michael Finkel

• Interviews
• Occasionally
• Recorder

My fight-or-flight mechanism... had served me well in Gaza, in Afghanistan, and all the places I'd been.

Michael Finkel

• Mechanism
• Afghanistan
• Served

Perhaps one could say I've worked in South Africa too long, but I believe in forgiveness, especially when a person admits a mistake, asks for forgiveness, and works to right a wrong.

Michael Finkel

• Wrong
• Forgiveness
• Perhaps

You can read my stuff; there are not very many quotes. It's more impressionistic.

Michael Finkel

• Stuff
• Read
• Quotes

In my writing, I try to combine all my favorite elements of journalism - accuracy, real characters that exist on this planet - with all my favorite elements of literature: a sense of flow, of propulsion, of wanting to read every sentence.

Michael Finkel

• Writing
• Literature
• Characters

I am guaranteeing you that if you see my byline on a story, it's going to be the cleanest story you've ever read.

Michael Finkel

• Story
• Read
• Guaranteeing

Not to get too maudlin, but I think all mistakes are tests for one's mettle.

Michael Finkel

• Think
• Mistakes
• Tests

America might be the land of second chances, but it ain't the land of third chances.

Michael Finkel

• America
• Land
• Chances

I am a writer. It's like a third arm to me.

Michael Finkel

• Like
• Writer
• Arm

I committed pretty much the worst thing you can do, which is defraud the readers.

Michael Finkel

• Thing
• Worst
• Committed