Good Quote by Cord Jefferson

Too few journalists become screenwriters. I say to all the would-be screenwriters: Become journalists. And I’ll say to working journalists: Do not stay journalists.…

— Nora Ephron

I assume that - because you can get degrees in journalism from very reputable universities - I assume that people can be trained to…

— William Gibson

As journalism dies, I kind of feel like I want some skills besides writing. I'd like to be able to write movies or host…

— Joel Stein

I have always aspired to be a writer, be it as an author or a screenwriter, whatever the medium.

— Kanika Dhillon

If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky…

— Norman Mailer

Fiction writing was in my blood from a very young age, but I never considered writing as a real career. I thought you had…

— James Rollins

It is indeed difficult to make a living as a writer, and my advice to anyone contemplating a literary career is to have some…

— William S. Burroughs

I've always wanted to be a novelist, so I just try to write really great narrative.

— Peter Heller

I always wanted to be a fiction writer, but I couldn't figure out how you could be a novelist and make any money, which…

— Anna Quindlen

There are a lot of really good skills you get from doing journalism - it completely changed my world and how I interact with…

— Benjamin Booker

Becoming a writer is not a 'career decision' like becoming a doctor or a policeman. You don't choose it so much as get chosen,…

— Paul Auster

I never intended to have a career as a journalist, writing about people who make movies. I did it as something that was really…

— Curtis Hanson