Douglas Brunt : (5)

" Spend more time working before you write page one. Then, the story – at least parts of it – will feel as though it is writing itself. " - Douglas Brunt

" I did interviews with tennis greats, like James Blake and John Isner. I also interviewed tennis pros who aren’t well – known but who made all the same sacrifices but had just a little spark of a professional career and are now still orbiting the sport, either as a teaching pro or a coach. " - Douglas Brunt

" It’s common knowledge that professional athletes earn extraordinary incomes. What is less known or understood is how the advent of these riches has seeped into the conscious and unconscious ways in which our society now parents children. " - Douglas Brunt

" Washington isn’t utterly dysfunctional. " - Douglas Brunt

" I’ve seen terrorism close up, but I don’t live in a state of terror at all. I’m comfortable going to the Manhattan Thanksgiving Day Parade, the tree lighting at Rockefeller Center, Times Square on New Years Eve. For perspective, the world today is a safer place than it was during the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Berlin Airlift, World War II. " - Douglas Brunt