Anthony Shadid Quotes

Anthony Shadid — American Journalist born on September 26, 1968, died on February 16, 2012

Anthony Shadid was a foreign correspondent for The New York Times based in Baghdad and Beirut. He won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting twice, in 2004 and 2010... (wikipedia)

I started doing some interviews with elderly people in the family because I knew they would pass away and we would lose the power of their story.

I don't think there's any story worth dying for, but I do think there are stories worth taking risks for.

I had a great childhood. I think writers are always better off when they have more twisted childhoods, but I didn't.

Journalism is always the art of the incomplete. You get bits and pieces.

I think Syria is often covered by phone. You have to talk to activists. You have to try to read the tea leaves. You have to talk to government officials. It's remote-control reporting in a way.

Anthony Shadid Quotes

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