Aunt Quote by Dan Jenkins

I wrote for my high school and college newspapers. It was my only creative outlet in those days.

— Soupy Sales

My grandfather had been a newspaper reporter, as was my uncle. They were pretty good writers and so I thought maybe somewhere down the…

— Gene Hackman

I am a writer who happens to use some tools of journalism.

— Svetlana Alexievich

From about ninth grade on, I knew I was a writer at heart. I had fantasies of being a great novelist, but I thought…

— Kevin Maney

I've been a writer since I was a kid. I've been a writer since I was, you know, dictating stories into a tape deck…

— Shonda Rhimes

My type is writer.

— Nikhil Saluja

I've been many kinds of writers in my career: novelist; tele-playwright; short story writer. As a high-school student, I wrote amateur pieces for fanzines,…

— George R. R. Martin

I studied journalism, though I never really became a scribe.

— Nithya Menen

I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years.

— Jennifer Weiner

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

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

I'm a writer. I've been a journalist for my whole adult life.

— Stephen J. Dubner