As a novelist, you deepen your characters as you go, adding layers. As a reporter, you try to peel layers away: observing subjects enough to get beneath the surface, re-questioning a source to find the facts. But these processes aren't so different.
So the premise of 'The Submission' is that there's an anonymous competition to design a 9/11 memorial and it's won by an American Muslim, an architec… - Amy Waldman
So the premise of 'The Submission' is that there's an anonymous competition to design a 9/11 memorial and it's won by an American Muslim, an architec…
- Amy Waldman
Work less than you think you should. It took me a while to realise there was a point each day when my creativity ran out and I was just producing wor… - Amy Waldman
Work less than you think you should. It took me a while to realise there was a point each day when my creativity ran out and I was just producing wor…
In Germany, you have a huge official memorial to the murdered Jews and then you have this artist who's been putting these stumbling blocks, these bra… - Amy Waldman
In Germany, you have a huge official memorial to the murdered Jews and then you have this artist who's been putting these stumbling blocks, these bra…
In America time was gold; in Bangladesh, corrugated tin. - Amy Waldman
In America time was gold; in Bangladesh, corrugated tin.
As a reporter you tend to seek coherence from your subject or your source - it all needs to add up and make sense. In truth, in reality, there's ofte… - Amy Waldman
As a reporter you tend to seek coherence from your subject or your source - it all needs to add up and make sense. In truth, in reality, there's ofte…
Sorrow can be a bully. - Amy Waldman
Sorrow can be a bully.
In architecture, space was a material to be shaped, even created. For these men, the material was silence. Silence like water in which you could drow… - Amy Waldman
In architecture, space was a material to be shaped, even created. For these men, the material was silence. Silence like water in which you could drow…
And as journalists we look for differences - differences between countries, cultures, classes, and communities. We're very sensitized to difference, … - Amy Waldman
And as journalists we look for differences - differences between countries, cultures, classes, and communities. We're very sensitized to difference, …
I think in the wake of 9/11, like a lot of Americans, you know, we were all very traumatized by the attacks, traumatized in a totally different way b… - Amy Waldman
I think in the wake of 9/11, like a lot of Americans, you know, we were all very traumatized by the attacks, traumatized in a totally different way b…
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