Seymour Hersh

“Yeah, I shoot my mouth off. There's a huge difference between writing and thinking.”

“Maybe I am not an easy guy.”

“I didn't know I was gonna be a writer when I started out.”

“I can't fudge what I write. But I can certainly fudge what I say.”

“Most of the important secrets that I've known about, the real secrets that are known about aren't worth publishing.”

“If you think I write stories where it is all right to just be good enough, are you kidding? You think I have a cavalier attitude on throwing stuff out? Are you kidding? I am not cavalier about what I do for a living.”

“I always believe in truth. Sometimes I know truth others don't. That puts me in a little bit of jeopardy sometimes.”

“Using words to make other people less big made me feel bigger, though the psychological dimension to that... well, I don't want to explore it.”