Andrew Vachss - Journalism is what maintains democracy....

Journalism is what maintains democracy. It's the force for progressive social change.

Biography

Author Profession: Author

Nationality: American

Born: October 19, 1942

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Mark Twain, Henry David Thoreau, Helen Keller, Zig Ziglar, Frederick Douglass, Joyce Meyer, Leo Buscaglia, F. Scott Fitzgerald

Topics

Change, Democracy, Force, Journalism, Progressive, Social, Social Change

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Fighting means you could lose. Bullying means you can't. A bully wants to beat somebody; he doesn't want to fight somebody.

Bullying You Fight Fighting

All children are born pure egoists. They perceive their needs to the exclusion of all others. Only through socialization do they learn that some forms of gratification must be deferred and others denied.

Children Born Pure Some

I don't understand people whose gratification is a BMW. You don't know what joy is until you see a kid who was tortured get adopted by a family.

Family You People Joy

The third person narrator, instead of being omniscient, is like a constantly running surveillance tape.

Person Like Being Surveillance

In some neighborhoods, if you want to walk down the streets, you've got two choices - look down, or look hard.

Walk You Look Down

I don't sign contracts for my books.

Books Contracts Sign

I hate bullies. I hate them. I'm not good enough with words to describe how much I hate them.

Good Hate Words Not Good Enough

I write everything in Courier 12 because I write for publication, not pleasure.

Pleasure Everything Write Because

Courier 12 is the Type-O blood of fonts - works just as good for a 'N.Y. Times' op-ed as a screenplay or a short story.

Good Short Story Blood

A trial is not a search for truth. It is a contest and, often, one that produces no winners.

Truth Search Winners Contest

My life is triage.

I don't take advances for my books.

Books Take Advances

I think people should be consumers of journalism.

People Journalism Think I Think

I'm in pursuit of what cannot be achieved: perfection.

Perfection Cannot Achieved Pursuit

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