Daniel Drezner Quotes

Perhaps the old fogies in the blogosphere get that way because, well, we stop taking the whole megillah so seriously. And we can't take it seriously because, well, this isn't our primary means of employment and never will be. Once the blogosphere is run by sufficient numbers of people who are paid to blog, us enlightened amateurs just look semi-pro.

Daniel Drezner

Quotes to Explore

I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me.

Fay Godwin
- People
- Work
- Teach
Readers want to have the confidence that you understand the era in which the book is set, so for 'The Perfumer's Secret,' I needed to know everything about the First World War from a French perspective. I had to understand those people and that town in 1914.

Fiona McIntosh
- People
- World
- Book
The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.

Samuel Butler
- People
- Important
- Service
I remember in the '80s, Randy Travis was my guy. He's the reason I moved to Nashville, and I just loved him. But at some point when he was winning everything, you find yourself pulling for other people.

Garth Brooks
- People
- Remember
- Guy
When people talk about the impact of mobile dating, everyone focuses on real-time meeting - this idea that my pocket will vibrate every time a hot girl walks by. That's important. But it's not transformative.

Sam Yagan
- People
- Time
- Important
You have to understand that while I pre-plot the meta story of a given book, I often have no idea of what will happen on the next page, let alone the next chapter. That's what makes it fun for me; I write the books the same way many people read them.

R. A. Salvatore
- People
- Book
- Fun