David Halberstam quotes

If youre a reporter, the easiest thing in the world is to get a story. The hardest thing is to verify. The old sins were about getting something wrong, that was a cardinal sin. The new sin is to be boring. (David Halberstam)
Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be. View quote
David Halberstam
Nixon, who spent much of his career attacking the press and saying he was a victim of the press, was in fact created by the press, in this case the L.A. Times. View quote
David Halberstam
No publisher in America improved a paper so quickly on so grand a scale, took a paper that was marginal in qualities and brought it to excellence as Otis Chandler did. View quote
David Halberstam
With the marketing pressures driving the book world today, it's much easier to get the author of a memoir on a television show than a serious novelist. View quote
David Halberstam
[On writing:] "There's a great quote by Julius Irving that went, 'Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them.'" (, interview with Budd Mishkin;, March 25, 2007.) View quote
David Halberstam