Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right you can fix it.

The newspaper is a marvelous medium. It is extraordinarily convenient and cheap. Let's see. This one cost 75 cents. Now that's a little high. I bought it when I was downtown this morning.

If there was no Black Sabbath I could still possibly be a morning newspaper delivery boy. No fun.

Homer is new this morning and perhaps nothing is as old as today's newspaper.

The work is with me when I wake up in the morning it is with me while I eat my breakfast in bed and run through the newspaper while I shave and bathe and dress.

I write early in the morning usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web.

I'd always been a news junkie always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning news shows on TV and felt strongly about issues of power control sexuality and race.

You know the men go to tea houses with the expectation that they will have a nice quiet evening and not read about it the next morning in the newspaper.

A city with one newspaper or with a morning and an evening paper under one ownership is like a man with one eye and often the eye is glass.

I worked at Salon.com way back when they started and there's just unmeasurable value to distributing words online too but I still get my news from the newspaper in the morning.