Tama Janowitz Quotes

The media tried to destroy my parents and has taken things completely out of context, but there's not a whole lot you can do in terms of fighting back. You have to hope that it passes, which it always does. But they have to be careful. They didn't necessarily sign up for this.

In a way, certain sections of the media always wanted to knock me because I had captained my country and been skipper at Old Trafford. It was all a bit odd really.

I've always had the media going against me every year.

The media crucify me like they did Christ.

In fact, I think for a lot of writers, it's so hard to be read.

People say it's cathartic to write a book, but it turned out to be quite painful!

'Goon Squad' took about three years to write and that's the short end. My second novel, 'Look at Me,' took six years.

It's hard to listen to the news every day and have everyone saying you're the Antichrist.

How lucky am I? Quite often I speak at book festivals, and people ask me how I got published. There's people who have been working on a book for as long as ten years, and I feel like such a cow.

I think the media spends a lot of time fooling itself.

At that time, I had recently finished a book called Amazing Grace, which many people tell me is a very painful book to read. Well, if it was painful to read, it was also painful to write. I had pains in my chest for two years while I was writing that book.

When I first started working on 'Staying Dead,' I got some well-meaning but negative feedback from industry folk because - back in 2001 - epic fantasy was still the big thing, alternate history a tight runner-up.

My first book, 'The Age of Wire and String,' came out in 1995, and it was hardly reviewed at all.

Criticizing Fox News has nothing to do with criticizing the press. Fox News is not a news organization. It is the de facto leader of the GOP, and it is long past time that it is treated as such by the media, elected officials and the public.

A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.

I don't know why sportswriters always have to write bad things about Joaquin Andujar.

All the media are horrible.

In 35 years of being in the media, I've had all this mud flung at me many, many times. It's not the first time. It's nothing unusual. I've been through it all before and the best way to deal with it is not to read them.

How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.

I feel like I've got a novel in me somewhere, but that's something... I was just talking to a buddy of mine about it, who's a writer as well, and he's nearly done with his first novel, and it's taken him 11, 12 years to do it. And I can totally understand; it's a long process.

I've had trouble with criticism, I guess. It's hard to know what role criticism plays in either encouraging poets or in getting other people to read them.

I made a decision when I ran for president that I wouldn't whine about my coverage in the media, and I never did.

If you interviewed 1,000 politicians and asked about whether the media's too soft or too hard, about 999 would say too hard.

The media's worried about whether I've paid my taxes; they're worried about any number of silly things that have nothing to do with America.

I've written a lot of books in my time, and to write a book about Joe McCarthy and have some of the major media paying attention, I'm not used to that.