Quotes: Graydon Carter

Johanna Schneller: "You write this about your teenage self: 'I wanted to become something, but I had no idea what to become, or how to become it.' In your life, what was the value of being an outsider, of yearning?"

Graydon Carter: "Yearning and curiosity are vital. I grew up in Ottawa in the 1950s, sixties and early seventies. We didn't have any magazines, there were no cultural figures I could learn from. Everything I wanted was either in Toronto or New York."

–– Graydon Carter (b. 1949), Canadian journalist and magazine editor

Source: Johanna Schneller. "Former Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter reflects on the glory days of magazines." The Globe and Mail, Saturday March 22, 2025; p. R8. Re: Graydon Carter's memoir When the Going Was Good.

via: Commonplace Book, 2024, 2025, p. 56.