Quotes About Author

There's a lot of essay writing that could pass for journalism and journalism that could pass for essay. Some of it is just taxonomy.

I used to enjoy reading true crime, but I've discovered that I don't have the journalism nose for blood.

I had gone to all the big stories of the '80s, which was one of the most fertile times in American journalism, around the world and here as well.

After 'Land,' I wanted to do something about emerging media and citizen journalism, so I got this idea for 'Diary of the Dead.'

Fiction writing and journalism, in my experience, are really excellent training grounds for each other.

I went to journalism school, so sometimes writing the script of 'Being Mary Jane' is me putting my journalism hat on.

My investigative journalism is great; I know I get results.

I was once a journalist. And I think of myself as a journalist, and that's it. You tell the truth. I even wrote a book called 'The Truth'.

It's difficult for me, to look into eyes of a journalist and trust him to present it as you say.

I've been a journalist for too long to stop calling myself a journalist, and also when I'm doing 'Fake or Fortune?' I'm going through a rigorous investigation.

If you're curious, you'll probably be a good journalist because we follow our curiosity like cats.

I'm not an advocacy journalist - that's not what I do. My role in journalism is to be able to engage the most interesting people with the best ideas.

My father was a journalist.

I'm Harvard-educated; I'm an economist by training. I'm an author, a journalist, as well as being active in community development.

I wanted to be a journalist. I used to write articles at university about politics.

I was never a true journalist, I was a movie critic.

I was a sort of rock journalist - whatever that is - in London in the late '60s.

If my name had not been cleared, it would have been difficult, perhaps impossible, to continue as a journalist.

I've never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography.

I feel I'm functioning at some level as a journalist because even though I write fiction, I'm trying to get the world accurate.

I write as well as I can. I'm a journalist at heart, so it's the story that matters.

The fact that I have always been deeply invested in politics, and African politics in particular, inevitably played a role in my first novel and, of course, in my decision to write about a handful of particular conflicts in Africa as a journalist.

Most writers I know go for word counts, and I used to be a journalist, so I guess that's ingrained.

I've always called myself a journalist who happens to draw. If I wasn't drawing cartoons, I'd be writing stories.