Sometimes I feel the only way I can get a major publisher interested in mental illness is if … - Pete Earley

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Meanwhile after failing the bar twice, I knew some people in New York and moved here in August '71.

Pete Earley

Sometimes I feel the only way I can get a major publisher interested in mental illness is if I find a character who has bipolar disorder and is also a love-sick vampire attending an English school called Hogwarts. But I'm not giving up.

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I think that some of the greatest muckrakers and some of the greatest investigative journalists of all time had strong feelings about civil rights. There is a role for the journalist-advocate. And as long as you play your cards on the table, I think thats a role that we should allow.

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Having been a journalist for thirty-nine years, I've developed a pretty thick skin.

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Mental illnesses are so frightening and there's so much ignorance about them that I think it comforts people to think, 'Oh, well, it happens to these people because they deserve it. '

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