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Almost everything that my sister disliked about the paper route was something that appealed to me.
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Peter Hessler, New Yorker, 31 May 2026
And open-field comments from respondents hailed the entrepreneurial values gained by managing a paper route.
—Brandon Busteed, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2026
Buffett used both of these religiously on his morning paper route.
—Sydney Lake, Fortune, 14 Apr. 2026
Those back-in-my-day clichés about growing up in midcentury America — walking a mile to school, working a paper route, playing outside until the streetlights clicked on — paint a fairly accurate picture of a kind of American childhood that’s all but vanished.
—Stephen Johnson, Big Think, 31 Mar. 2026
Competitiveness in the household transcended football games, Bob Sr. and Bobby splitting a block on Bobby’s paper route and racing each other back to the middle to see who was the fastest at delivering the Shamokin News-Dispatch.
—Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2026
Nearly four decades before the death of Maria Florinda Ríos Pérez, a high school junior mistaken for a vandal was fatally shot while delivering The Indianapolis Star on his early morning paper route.
—Ryan Murphy, IndyStar, 21 Nov. 2025
Filming began in May 1972 and took several years to complete, largely because of funding issues (the money came from a variety of sources, including grants, loans from Lynch’s father and friends, including Sissy Spacek, and even Lynch’s own paper route).
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 16 Jan. 2025
Well, unbeknownst to the shooter at the time, there was a boy who had just completed his paper route.
—Mary Spicuzza, Journal Sentinel, 31 July 2024
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Peter Hessler, New Yorker, 31 May 2026
And open-field comments from respondents hailed the entrepreneurial values gained by managing a paper route.
—Brandon Busteed, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2026
Buffett used both of these religiously on his morning paper route.
—Sydney Lake, Fortune, 14 Apr. 2026
Those back-in-my-day clichés about growing up in midcentury America — walking a mile to school, working a paper route, playing outside until the streetlights clicked on — paint a fairly accurate picture of a kind of American childhood that’s all but vanished.
—Stephen Johnson, Big Think, 31 Mar. 2026
Competitiveness in the household transcended football games, Bob Sr. and Bobby splitting a block on Bobby’s paper route and racing each other back to the middle to see who was the fastest at delivering the Shamokin News-Dispatch.
—Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2026
Nearly four decades before the death of Maria Florinda Ríos Pérez, a high school junior mistaken for a vandal was fatally shot while delivering The Indianapolis Star on his early morning paper route.
—Ryan Murphy, IndyStar, 21 Nov. 2025
Filming began in May 1972 and took several years to complete, largely because of funding issues (the money came from a variety of sources, including grants, loans from Lynch’s father and friends, including Sissy Spacek, and even Lynch’s own paper route).
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 16 Jan. 2025
Well, unbeknownst to the shooter at the time, there was a boy who had just completed his paper route.
—Mary Spicuzza, Journal Sentinel, 31 July 2024
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“Paper route.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/paper%20route. Accessed 7 Jun. 2026.
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