This is from the Q&A with Dan Barry at poynter.org:<p>What have you not been asked on your big tour that you'd like to answer?<p>Why are there no quotes in the book? <p>The reason is that, where I come from, quotation marks are sacred. And there is no way that I could recall conversations from five years ago verbatim, much less conversations from 30 years ago. So I share conversations, as best as I can recall them, without quotes, which has a side benefit of lending a novelistic feel to the narrative.<p>**What do you guys think? I like his honesty; I've long wondered how authors can be confident that they're remembering verbatim conversations or comments from years ago.**
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