Body Quote by Craig Seymour

I've always been a writer. I started getting paid for writing in college. Where it transitioned from commentary to journalism was in that shift…

— Melissa Gira Grant

My intent was to gain experience for fiction I eventually hoped to write. But there's no question I was drawn in by the hope…

— Tom Rachman

I like writing about big turning points, where professional and personal lives coalesce, where the boundaries are coming down, and you're faced with a…

— Tana French

I took to writing as my medicine to help me stay afloat in acting career journey. I wrote about me breaking hearts, and my…

— Omari Hardwick

I write about what interests me. It's very dangerous when you try to satisfy an audience.

— Jonathan Carroll

I became a writer because during several of the most important years of my life, writing seemed to me to be the most unreal,…

— William Saroyan

I'm not in journalism for the money. I'm in it to tell great stories, to talk about moments of history that are forgotten, and…

— Ethan Brown

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

“Journalism gave me another tool of exploration, another way of unveiling the laws that bound my body... And with journalism, I could directly ask…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

We hear from sex workers who have through their own volition become media figures, or have despite their own wishes become media figures. Like…

— Melissa Gira Grant

I reluctantly signed up for a journalism major, thinking I needed a fall-back way to make money should my career as a novelist fail…

— Kevin Maney

Writing is for men who can think and feel, not mindless sensation seekers out of nightclubs and bars. But these are bad times. We…

— Naguib Mahfouz