David remnick

I'm interested in Russian language, culture, history... and I lived there, for four years, as a reporter for the Washington Post and have visited many times since.

If the story is good enough, if it's imaginative enough, if it's moving enough it is going to reach deeper than the level of sheer information and change somebody's life two degrees. That is an...

I'm not the slowest writer that you know.

You know what writers say about their long books: If I had another year, the book would be half as long.

Very rarely is there a spike in news-stand sales.

I think dealing with the U.S. Senate is very different from dealing with the electorate.

A.J. Liebling, one of my heroes, used to say that he could write better than anyone who wrote faster, and faster than anyone who could write better. I'm one nine-hundredth as good as Liebling, but...

My time as editor has been overlapped by a crisis - a prolonged, labyrinthine, tragic, seemingly non-ending crisis - that involves the prehistory of 9/11, 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan, fraught histories...

Not all political prisoners are innocents.

Reform is not a period of retreat.