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Columnist Robert Novak said Thursday morning that the draft manuscript of his recently released autobiography, “Bob Novak and the Deathly Hallows” … er, sorry, “The Prince of Darkness: 50 Years Reporting in Washington” (can’t get Harry Potter out of our heads), ran to about 1,400 pages.
“It would have been longer than the Bible, but not as good,” he told his audience at an American Spectator breakfast. Along with his editor, William Schulz, he set about trimming more than half its length to get the book down to its current 638 pages.
Other Novak-isms:
» On blogs: “I’m 76 years old, and pretty soon I’m going to a place where there are no blogs.”
» He said LBJ and JFK were the only Democrats he’s voted for, “but I regret Johnson.”
» On George W. Bush: “All presidents look better after they’re dead, and George W. Bush can count on that.”
» On Gerald Ford: “Fox News got me out of bed to talk about Gerry Ford [when he died]. I said how incompetent I thought he was. They got me out of that studio so fast …”
There was more of the same at Georgetown University on Wednesday night. He called CNN founder Ted Turner a “classic example of a madman” and said he’d turn Keith Olbermann down if the MSNBC anchor ever asked to meet him.
When someone asked how he got his sources, he replied: “How I developed them? I’m so charming.”
