Do You Find That They Stay in Your Life After the Story?

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Every single one of them, they become, they become a part of my life. And i guess, i don't know why, but maybe i just feel like i'm cheating on them if i wereus to cast them away after the piece is written. Because i do get very sympathetic and friendly with these subjects. You can find some of them on my facebook friend liszt, because end up, you know, friending them. I mean, and this is even with people who are somewhat unhappy about how the piece came out. They thenk they can still see that i really meant it when i said, whow. That's fascinating, that it wasn't

Yudhijit Bhattacharjee is a contributing writer for National Geographic and the New York Times Magazine. His new podcast is Chameleon: Scam Likely.

“I want a crumpled piece of paper where there are enough ridges and valleys and lines for me to be able to navigate, and they have to be authentic. And then of course the best stories among them will have surprise and intrigue, and things that are completely unexpected happen somewhere along the way. But it's hard to anticipate all of that. You still have to have a little bit of faith.”

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