Actually Quote by Alice Walker

I didn't start off as a journalist; I started off as a poet. My ambition was to practise poetry. Then I found journalism, but…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

I've never really felt like a journalist. I've felt like a writer and a diarist. I have made myself vulnerable in my writing, and…

— Tavi Gevinson

Journalism is very much public writing, writing with an audience in mind, writing for publication, and frequently writing quickly. And I know that when…

— Achy Obejas

My mother sent me to speech classes, but the other kids still teased me. I was shy. I stooped. Instead of talking, I kept…

— Colman Domingo

I went into journalism in a grandiose way. I thought maybe I'd do a little journalism whilst I write the great novel of all…

— Neal Ascherson

My great fear of being attacked or trivialized by my contemporaries made me concentrate on what I was trying to do as a writer.…

— Pat Conroy

I'd been in journalism about two weeks when I realized I would do just about anything to avoid writing, and over the years, I…

— Tucker Carlson

When I was 26 or 27, I gave up journalism. I came to England after my mom died, to let serendipity take its course.…

— Heather Brooke

journalism was for me more than a business or a profession. It was a way of living, of experiencing the world even as I…

— Andrea Mitchell

I had the most incredible English and literature teachers in school, and it really influenced my love of storytelling. It's what made me excited…

— Sophia Bush

When I was in college I started writing prose, because a very smart professor asked me what I like to read and I said,…

— Melissa Febos

When I was a kid growing up, I always thought I would be a journalist, and I thought, you know, I'd cover stories about…

— Tamron Hall