“Rook was a journalist but strove to be a storyteller, one who let his subjects speak for themselves and stayed out of their way as much as possible.”
“He wrote as if he were the reader. It was also how he kept his writing from becoming too cute, which is to say, about him not the subject. Rook was a journalist but strove to be a storyteller, one who let his subjects speak for themselves and stayed out of their way as much as possible.”
“The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves.”
“No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.”
“Storytelling wasn't about making things up. It was more like inviting the stories to come through her, let themselves be told.”
“Joe went all the way home with his mouth wide open, to rinse the rum out with as much air as possible.”