Tom Rachman Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“My intent was to gain experience for fiction I eventually hoped to write. But there's no question I was drawn in by the hope that journalism would be a creative, thrilling environment.”

“Obituaries were among my favorite to write because they have elements no other news stories have - a story from start to finish with a proper conclusion.”

“What the art world has done, it has been constantly been pushing the boundaries about what art can be. It's like expanding its territory.”

“I hadn't been a particularly precocious reader, but everybody else in my family was.”

“My own career started in New York at the 'Associated Press', a fast-paced news agency where we rarely had time for deep reporting.”

“My parents used to rent old movies - my whole childhood is in black and white - and it was my dream to make films.”

“The strength of fiction is not in reading about yourself, but in reading about other people.”

“When I left Toronto and entered journalism in the late 1990s, I had many notions about the news business, nearly all of them wrong, as it turned out.”

“I went to the University of Toronto to study the history and theory of film, in the back of my mind thinking I'd go to NYU film school and see if I could make a career of it.”

“The way I found time to write 'The Imperfectionists' was that I took work as a copy editor at the 'International Herald Tribune' in Paris, working full-time for approximately six months, then taking my savings from that and writing full-time, then returning after six months, and so on, until the book was done!”