American - Novelist | September 28, 1952 -
The ideological distance between Jim Webb and Bertrand Russell can be measured in light years. An author who reaches both of them exerts something like universal appeal.
Christopher Buckley
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Catch-22's first readers were largely of the generation that went through World War II. For them, it provided a startlingly fresh take, a much-needed, much-delayed laugh at the terror and madness they endured.
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Lobbyists didn't descend from a spaceship. They evolved organically from the way we do business.
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We make our public servants jump through quite a few hoops, you know. We get hysterical if they accept a $50 lunch from a lobbyist. We get hysterical if they accept a ride on some corporate jet.
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I certainly wish I were as good-looking as Aaron Eckhart.
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I just write what comes along. I don't have a detailed master plan.
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A new idea is like carbonated liquid in a bottle. You just sort of shake it until the cork pops, then you write and write.
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I am not a political thinker. I'm not even much of a thinker. I'm a hack novelist.
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I am post-Catholic.
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I'm accused of, and perhaps rightly so, of not being mean enough. I've been taken to task in many a book review; a good satirist has to, you know, has to kill.
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I love Washington. I have an affection for the place. For a satirist, I think it's sort of Disneyland. I mean, you know, there's always some inspiration in the morning's headlines.
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It's always tricky, meeting an author you've admired.
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