The function of a blog is on some level to start a conversation that you're not involved in any more because you've already had your say. That thing of coming right off the news — did you see what I saw this morning, can you believe it? — has a kind of fun appeal.
Quoted in Emma Brockes, "Everything Is Copy", The Guardian (3 March 2007)
Emma Brockes talks to Oscar-nominated director and razor-sharp hack, Nora Ephron