Maybe some of today's papers have too many 'feel-good' features, but there is a lot of good news out there.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think we are waiting for an e-book that even non-techies can be comfortable with. From my point of view, the biggest change is that I don't have to spend most of the day printing out and packaging a manuscript. I think I almost miss that.
What I feel bad about is not having published very much in the last few years.
I am glad I worked on a newspaper because it made me know I had to write whether I felt like it or not.
People keep saying, 'Oh, you're getting all these great reviews, that must make you really happy.' I guess it does, but mostly it's just a relief.
I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.
Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.
It won't make for a quiet life but it will make for an interesting paper vastly more significant because it is doing something only a daily paper can do.
I had started to feel that somewhere in the second half of the 20th century, the idea of page-turning as a good thing had been lost. You were getting books that were the equivalent of absolutely beautifully prepared dishes of food that didn't taste like anything much.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
A good newspaper is never nearly good enough but a lousy newspaper is a joy forever.