I can't explain why I don't read comments. Maybe because I worked at Time for so long and they don't have them, so I keep forgetting that they're there. Joel Stein More Quotes by Joel Stein More Quotes From Joel Stein Basically, I wake up, take care of my son for a little while, and then like, "I am gonna write!" And then I wind up. Joel Stein writing wind son When Time got rid of my column, I thought it was all over. It was really sad. And then, I just started pushing it to lots of places. And I thought someone would run my column, I thought it was popular, and no one wanted it. Joel Stein pushing-it really-sad running I try to see what that person is thinking or feeling about that particular day. I just get more of a sense of what that person's like and hopefully it's more interesting than a normal conversation. Joel Stein feelings interesting thinking I don't like to be in the forest. It's a weird thing. I've learned to have a general appreciation for nature, which has taken a while. But the forest, I still don't really love. Joel Stein taken forests appreciation The fun thing about journalism is if you go do a story about something, you can now ask three intelligent questions about it. Or say three intelligent things. And that gets people talking. Joel Stein intelligent fun talking I would be at home reading, because I felt so disconnected from humanity. Joel Stein reading humanity home I wish I'd legitimately talked about some painful moments in my life where I felt insufficient as a kid. Joel Stein painful-moments wish kids What I wound up doing, which I think is really journalistically dubious, is changing the order of some of the things I did, so that the things I ended up struggling with the most wind up being two-thirds of the way in. Joel Stein struggle order thinking You can get away with stuff in a one-page story that you can't get away with in a book. Joel Stein pages stuff book You really, really have to care about animals to want to kill one. You have to learn all this stuff about them and start thinking like them. Joel Stein want animal thinking I can't imagine deer hunting. I used to think I couldn't imagine deer hunting because killing a deer seemed so awful. But now I think about just sitting in a tree and doing nothing all day and probably not even seeing a deer. Not moving and sitting in a tree? That seems rough. Joel Stein hunting moving thinking If you're at my level and you go to a bookstore, even a good turnout is not that many people. Sometimes it is. But for the most part, it's not a huge turnout. Joel Stein bookstores levels people With a Q&A, you need obviously to keep it snappy. Joel Stein needs There have been people who represent something very symbolic and I've been freaked out interviewing them. Joel Stein symbolic has-beens people I hate walking up to strangers. Joel Stein i-hate hate stranger Reporting in general makes me pretty nervous. But I realized: all the amazing work experiences of my life were thanks to reporting. So that forces you to go do it. Joel Stein thanks nervous force I always thought that being at Time and tweaking your bosses and exploiting your expense account was just fun. Just joyous. Joel Stein boss joyous fun I think I realized that Dave Barry was funnier than I'll ever be, and he made no attempt to make any actual points. He had a general libertarian point of view, but in general, he just liked to make jokes. Joel Stein libertarian views thinking I want to be heavily tied to a city that I write for every week, that knows my stuff and I can interact with. Joel Stein cities want writing You don't get anywhere without saying yes. Joel Stein saying-yes
