Quotes About Writing

My father was a journalist.

I always wanted to be part of the media. I knew I wanted to work as a journalist.

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've been a financial journalist for 30 years.

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

I am 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.

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

I used to be a journalist.

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

Since I make my living as a literary journalist, not a book scout, I spend inordinate amounts of time either reading or writing.

I've always thought of myself as a journalist; that was what I did.

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.

While I am not a journalist, I have, myself, written more than one thing that has been plagiarized in the past.

I am greatly influenced by my father who was a journalist.

I was living in Argentina in Buenos Aires and I was working as a journalist, but I was earning so little money and I needed extra money, and I went on Craigslist, looking for writing jobs.

I had to bring the idea of journalistic distance to writing about myself.

Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.

Broadsheets can be scathing. But I have respect for broadsheet journalists because they haven't succumbed to degrading themselves, to writing pidgin English with all these terrible colloquialisms, the phrasing of which is just, like, embarrassing.

The key for me with historical characters is they're interesting because they're human beings. A little bit of Hemingway goes a long way here, but journalists and writers should honestly look at their material and have a real interest, a real passion in what they want to write, and they should also have a lot of knowledge as well.

A lot of what journalists write is drivel.