David Simon Quotes

My Standard For Verisimilitude Is Simple And I Came To It When I Started To Write Prose Narrative: Fuck The Average Reader. I Was Always Told To Write For The Average Reader In My Newspaper Life. The Average Reader, As They Meant It, Was Some Suburban White Subscriber With Two-point-whatever Kids And Three-point-whatever Cars And A Dog And A Cat And Lawn Furniture. He Knows Nothing And He Needs Everything Explained To Him Right Away, So That Exposition Becomes This Incredible, Story-killing Burden. Fuck Him. Fuck Him To Hell.

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