Susan Stamberg

It was a foreign language.

And he put my microphone on and I got to talk some more.

I would come in in those days, Terry, with reams of clippings and papers and books to use as film material.

I'll always take a little something with me because you never know.

Oh, I left for a range of reasons.

I've been wanting to get off that program for quite some time.

It is an enormous grind.

Noah Adams and I...

We're wonderful partners on the air for five years.

And the only thing, and we are dear friends, the only thing we ever fought about was who had the harder job in broadcasting, whether he did or I did.

I suppose it was for me because I did it for so much longer than anybody else did.

And that just was a lot of it.

but it was a conscious decision that I really wanted to get off that daily carousel, something that I wanted to do for some time.

I write in this book that what really made the decision final was the fact that in 1986 I discovered I had breast cancer.

It was treated.

My prognosis is excellent.

But that was the point at which I said to myself, okay, this is something you've wanted for a long time.

Now is the time to do it.

You don't need this kind of stress in your life anymore.

I take my work very, very personally, and I work awfully, awfully hard, and it doesn't come easily to me.