3 Quotes & Sayings By Chris Rose

Chris Rose was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1966, where he still lives with his wife and kids. He is the author of seven books including the critically acclaimed The Girl Who Played Go (2007) and The Girl Who Thought She Was A Planet (2008). His work has received numerous awards, including the 2005 Australian Book Industry Award for Best Non-Fiction, the 2008 Western Australian Premier's Book Award for Fiction, and the 2009 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Fiction. He has written for The Age newspaper in Australia and is a contributor to "The Monthly" magazine in the US.

If there was no New Orleans, America would just be...
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If there was no New Orleans, America would just be a bunch of free people dying of boredom." -Judy Deck in an e-mail sent to Chris Rose Chris Rose
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Like so many others of my tenure and temperament–stubborn ancients, I suppose–web reporting is anathema to everything I love about newspapering: getting a tip, developing leads, fleshing-out the details, then telling the story. Now it stops with the tip. Just verify (hopefully! ) and post it. I didn’t write stories anymore; I 'produced content. Chris Rose