Grandfather Quote by Gene Hackman

My mother was a big reader, and my father was an editorial writer for a newspaper.

— Sandra Brown

My experience as a newspaper reporter was invaluable in terms of getting me to the kind of writing I do now. It gave me…

— Michael Connelly

My aunt got me interested in journalism - she found an old typewriter, had it worked over, put it on the dining room table,…

— Dan Jenkins

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'd been involved in journalism for a long time - my dad's a journalist, he's written many books, and when I was twelve years…

— Colum McCann

I'm still an old-school reporter at heart. Writing fiction satisfies my journalistic need to hear and relay the testimony of everyday people at the…

— Karen Traviss

During my past career as a journalist, I relished writing obits and equally dreaded phoning relatives for the necessary facts. But to my surprise…

— Tom Rachman

I come from a long line of people that write. My folks ran a weekly newspaper.

— Sam Wyly

I knew I was going to be a journalist when I was eight years old and I saw the printing presses rolling at the…

— Geraldine Brooks

My mother was a reporter, and though she quit when they had kids, she still loved it. She told me about the people at…

— Candace Camp

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 started writing by doing small related things but not the thing itself, circling it and getting closer. I had no idea how to…

— Amy Hempel