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Quote by Geraldine Brooks

“I'm a praying atheist. When I hear an ambulance siren, I ask for a blessing for those people in trouble, knowing that no one's listening. I think it's just a habit of mindfulness.”

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Geraldine Brooks

Geraldine Brooks is an Australian journalist known for her in-depth investigative reporting and unique narrative style. She has over 30 years of experience in the news industry, having worked as a journalist and editor for The Sydney Morning Herald, among other news organizations. more

“I was a news reporter for 16 years, seven of them a foreign correspondent in the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. Perhaps the most useful equipment I acquired in that time is a lack of preciousness about the act of writing. A reporter must write. There must be a story. The 'mot juste' unarriving? Tell that to your desk.”

Writing Years Stories Middle News Seven East Middle East Desks Reporters Equipment Balkans East Africa

Author:Geraldine Brooks

“Sometimes I want to have a mental book burning that would scour my mind clean of all the filthy visions literature has conjured there. But how to do without 'The Illiad?' How to do without 'Macbeth?”

Want Mind Book Sometimes Literature Vision Clean Burning Filthy Book Burning

Author:Geraldine Brooks

“I have lived a life that has been beautiful and painful at some moments. But I am convinced others can learn how to control a certain kind of rage that bubbles up in many Americans, particularly, but not limited to, women, blacks, and other minorities.”

Kind Has Beens Moments Beautiful Certain Painful Convinced Rage Minorities Bubbles

Author:Jayson Blair

“When we report stories, we don't just want to talk to people who did the right thing. We want to talk to people who did the wrong thing.”

People Want Stories Right Thing Reports Wrong Things

Author:Jayson Blair