“I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.”
Walesa's Wife, from Practicalities (1987, trans. 1990).
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Quoted by William Bolcom, in The End of the Mannerist Century / quoted in Art of the 20th Century, Part 1, Karl Ruhrberg, Klaus Honnef, Manfred Schneckenburger, Christiane Fricke; publisher: Taschen 2000, p. 190

Source: in the interview with Giovanni di Lorenzo, ZEITmagazin http://www.zeit.de/2010/13/Schmidt-Kohl-di-Lorenzo/seite-2 25. March 2010, nr. 13

"A Russian Aesthete", p. 279
Forewords and Afterwords (1973)
Context: Machines have no political opinions, but they have profound political effects. They demand a strict regimentation of time, and, by abolishing the need for manual skill, have transformed the majority of the population from workers into laborers. There are, that is to say, fewer and fewer jobs which a man can find a pride and satisfaction in doing well, more and more which have no interest in themselves and can be valued only for the money they provide.

“Journalism is literature in a hurry.”

Source: Principles of industrial organization, 1913, p. 48

Duane Swierczynski's entire interview with Andrew Vachss, originally published July 7, 2005, in the Philadelphia CityPaper.