Amount Quote by Geraldine Brooks

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'd had a variety of jobs - shop assistant, writer of children's magazines - but had found myself, funnily enough, as quite an uninformed…

— Josh Widdicombe

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 had - all my life, everybody who knew me thought that I would probably grow up to be a reporter, a newspaper reporter…

— Bob Schieffer

I had grown up as a feature writer, and basically my career had been in The National Lampoon and as a magazine editor, and…

— P. J. O'Rourke

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 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

Being a reporter took me out of myself and that shaped me as a writer.

— Tom Barbash

I became a journalist because one didn't have to specialise.

— Christopher Hitchens

When I was 26 or 27, I gave up journalism. I came to England after my mom died, to let serendipity take its course.…

— Heather Brooke

I probably would have gone the M.F.A. route except I was a dad at 19, and it made more sense to go to work…

— Jess Walter

I'd been in journalism about two weeks when I realized I would do just about anything to avoid writing, and over the years, I…

— Tucker Carlson