Quotes About Author

I'm a writer. I've been a journalist for my whole adult life.

I never actually went anywhere when I was a journalist. I was a critic, and I just sort of got stuff in the mail and chatted about it.

I'm not a liberal or conservative journalist, I'm saying conservative-owned media corporations seem to be treated differently.

I was a journalist's dream case study; a gobby girl with an accent who was good at engineering.

I used to be a film and music journalist, and wrote for different magazines in the 1990s. I still love music, but the experience destroyed my enthusiasm for film.

As a journalist, I fundamentally believe that keeping the public informed is an essential part of democracy.

Documentary film without nuanced journalistic sourcing risks being sensational, tendentious or broad-brushed.

As a journalist, a big part of what you do is search for drama and conflict. And a lot of the backstory with 'Billions' is grounded in my journalistic background.

If I feel like I haven't really tapped into the essence of the story when I do an assignment, I may revisit it on my own, and that's when I feel freer to add my imagination. But I think that if you feel imaginatively towards a subject, you really shouldn't do it in a journalistic context, because then you're just fabricating, and that's crazy.

I think BBC3 gave me my first commissions because I wasn't a middle-class, highbrow journalist. I was able to speak to the contributors on a level that perhaps some journalists don't.

Only two journalists followed the team around.

Why should I give you an interview? All you journalists are plagiarists.

I must be out of it, but I don't know any good journalists who have excused Clinton's problems.

When 'Play' first came out, journalists didn't review it; it didn't get radio play. And then it became this big successful record and, I hate to admit this, I found myself liking the fame. I bought into it.

The definition of political cinema is one I don't agree with, because every film, every show, is typically political in nature. Political cinema is simply the brainchild of bad journalists.

On the whole, I think journalists have been kind about me, but they do make me sound a bit of a dreary cow. There seems to be so much suffering in my life.

I have to entertain, because if I don't entertain you, you're not going to continue reading. But if I'm not out to enlighten, or change your mind about something, or change your behavior, then I really don't want to take the journey.

I have never in my career embarked on a journey towards controversy. I have never deliberately set a flame.

The journey of your first movie is not just beyond belief it can be truly beyond satire.

Although I hardly ever turn on the TV set unless it's football season, I do watch a lot of TV on my iPad - perfect for long airplane journeys.

Shakespeare's frequent horseback journeys from London to Stratford, and from Stratford to London, must have made him familiar with the county of Oxfordshire.

Joy is the serious business of Heaven.

'Getting On' is just the coolest experience ever, and working with people like Laurie Metcalf, that's the joy. That's what I love about it.

Reading was and still is my real joy.