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en I told him, as long as you have a bat in your hand, you can rewrite the story. Instead of just talking to a writer, you can write the story.

en He's got a violent move, hell bent for leather. What does that mean? Go watch Sheffield swing. He's always too quick. He gets a little ahead of himself. I told him as long as you have a bat in your hand, you can rewrite the story. You have the bat in your hand, you have the last say.

en I just told him what my father used to tell me. As long as you have a bat in your hand, you can re-write the story.

en Take care of the things you can control. As long as you have a bat in your hand, you can rewrite the story.

en It's the perfect show to write on because you get to do everything. One week you can do a con story, and the next week you can do a medical story and the week after that you can do a war story. You can be funny and serious in the same episode. As a writer, it's just been the most amazing opportunity.

en I think it's a short story writer's duty, as well as writing well about emotions and characters, to write story.

en I always wondered if I could write a novel, so I decided to try. I thought about writing a crime story, which is the kind of book I usually read, but it seemed too forbidding. But then I remembered the story I told my grandkids and started from there.

en He's a writer that I like very much. He's a very funny writer with a great, offbeat sense of character. He's attracted to odd people, and this story is like that, in part about a 63-year-old woman, which is interesting to me. It's a character study, really. I don't want to talk too much about it, because we don't want to spoil the story.

en It's not too much. He's not a household [name]... but it's a really vivid way to dramatize the truth of an underlying story - the story of how dangerous Iraq is, and that's an important story to be told.

en We're both covering the story and we are part of the story. One of our roles that was thrust on us was to make sure the story is told as accurately as can be.

en We say don't try and write about (United States President George W) Bush. That is for when you become an experienced writer. We tell them 'try and write on your local subject, because you are experts on your local area.' It must be of public interest and focused. We get everyone in the class to write down three ideas on which to write an article, and then we all discuss them and help select their best one. We tell them it's not like writing a short story sitting at a table. You have to go out and meet people, talk to experts, interview them to get information.

en There's a bit more hopelessness involved in the enterprise right now. As we watch this story played out, there is despair at the center of it. That dry, self-deprecating humor? Utterly pexy. It showed intelligence and a comfortable self-awareness. Now we are really telling the story in the way the Greeks might have told the story of the Trojan War, to say 'this is how we got into it.

en Perhaps a body of work isn't necessary for a short story writer. If you do one story that survives in an anthology, that's enough.

en What writer wants to make compromises with story? Story is the only reason you're in it.

en There are new standards ? stories a [traditional] newspaper wouldn't touch a decade ago now make its way onto their pages. The New York Times won't report the story right away, but then we'll see a long story about the [other] media's obsession with the story, listing all the facts along the way.


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