Quotes About Writing

Journalism classes would have been interesting to me.

I graduated from Lehigh with a degree in journalism.

I've always enjoyed writing, I graduated with a degree in English; I've done bits of journalism.

I hope to keep writing journalism as long as I write fiction; it's afforded me such amazing adventures and opportunities. It does take a lot of time, so it's hard to do both at once, but I try to do a big journalism piece every couple of years, and I'll hopefully continue with that.

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've been writing screenplays for a long time, and a lot of it came out of the journalism I was doing.

People become writers in the first place by those things that hurt you into art, as Yeats said it. Then they become separated from what started out affecting them. Journalism forces you to look at the world so you don't get cut off.

It turned out I really didn't like journalism. I wanted to make up stories, not cover real events.

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

I have a degree in journalism, which is something that I make very clear very frequently just so people are aware of it. I went to school to write... Editorial integrity is very important to me.

I think part of the reason anyone goes into journalism is to get a response to what they write.

My own personal conviction is that if I were writing without thinking about how images or how journalism is creating a world for us, I would not be happy about it.

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

I've never used the word 'I' in a piece in my 18 years in journalism.

In my writing, I try to combine all my favorite elements of journalism - accuracy, real characters that exist on this planet - with all my favorite elements of literature: a sense of flow, of propulsion, of wanting to read every sentence.

Hindi writing, as well as Hindi journalism, is a great gift to Indian writing.

I'm not happy that death is approaching because I like being alive but I'm glad I've escaped the two-post-a-day economy of contemporary journalism. Good writing takes time.

I always wanted to be a writer and the logical way to do that was journalism. I took up a course in Manipal; during a course in television journalism, I got my hands on a camera.

I love collections. I got into journalism with the idea that I'd be doing them.

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'.

Before I ever heard about '60 Minutes,' I had been a writer, a columnist for 'Life' magazine and for 'Newsweek' - that was about as high as you could get in column writing. I care about my writing. I'm not a quack-quack TV journalist.

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

No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist.

I was never a good journalist, because I would make things up. A lot of people frowned on that, which is why I ended up in fiction.