Became Quote by Annie Leibovitz

When I started working for Rolling Stone, I became very interested in journalism and thought maybe that's what I was doing, but it wasn't.

— Annie Leibovitz

I'm not someone who from a young age imagined myself being a writer or had dreams of being a novelist or anything like that,…

— Bari Weiss

I got into journalism because I came of age in the '60s. It just seemed one way for me to get things done.

— Joe Klein

I was drawn to journalism as a young guy because I felt like there was some purpose to it, not always but sometimes.

— Daniel Lyons

I eventually got a job with a television company, started to see how exciting journalism could be as a career, and decided that was…

— Anne Robinson

I didn't go into journalism thinking it would solidify my identity. I did it because I needed to make a living, and I was…

— Alex Tizon

My first real writing job was at 'Rolling Stone,' so I wrote about rock-and-roll and politics and the like. At the time, I really…

— Tim Cahill

I came over here and worked for rock magazines, and I worked for Rolling Stone, which has a very high standard of journalism, a…

— Kurt Loder

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

There is no doubt that the way journalism worked when I was growing up and getting started has changed forever.

— Dan Rather

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 came up in this industry at a time where you had to be a journalist. You had to break stories. You had to…

— Stephen A. Smith