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. Tom Rachman More Quotes by Tom Rachman More Quotes From Tom Rachman I hadn't been a particularly precocious reader, but everybody else in my family was. Tom Rachman everybody-elsebeeneverybodyfamily 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! Tom Rachman worktimebookway At the outset, my notion of being a writer was that you would have moments of inspiration and moments of frustration, when you'd crumple up your pages and toss them away. On one side, the dustbin would fill up, and on the other side, pages would rise into a novel. Tom Rachman youryoufrustrationmoments There are journalists who are drawn to the most extroverted, aggressive jobs because they get an ego high from it. It can be shocking to encounter them and even worse to work with them. Tom Rachman highaggressiveegowork The question I ask myself is what would have happened if newspapers hadn't initially given their content away for free on the Internet. It's so hard to get people to pay once they are accustomed to having something for free. Tom Rachman freemyselfinternetpeople 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. Tom Rachman journalismexperiencecreativehope 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. Tom Rachman finishstorystartnews I don't like most contemporary art. But I think if you talked to any person who's heavily involved in contemporary art, they'd say the same thing. If you go to a biennale, you don't expect to like much of it. Tom Rachman personthinkyouart 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. Tom Rachman likedoneworldart
