4 Quotes & Sayings By Ted Conover

Ted Conover is the author of the bestselling biography "Never Is a Promise." He received his BA from New York University and his PhD in history from Columbia University. He taught at Princeton University, the City College of New York, and SUNY Stony Brook. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Susan, and two sons.

...required for good fiction: character, conflict, change through time. And...
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...required for good fiction: character, conflict, change through time. And if you're really blessed, you get resolution. But life doesn't usually work out that way. Ted Conover
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Roads remain the essential network of the non-virtual world. They are the infrastructure upon which almost all other infrastructure depends. They are the paths of human endeavor. Ted Conover
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..what I'm getting at is like the distinction between tourist and a traveler. The tourist experience is superficial and glancing. The traveler develops a deeper connection with her surroundings. She is more invested in them -- the traveler stays longer, makes her own plans, chooses her own destination, and usually travels alone: solo travel and solo participation, although the most difficult emotionally, seem the most likely to produce a good story. . Ted Conover