Bits Quote by Jonathan Coe

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 didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.

— Naguib Mahfouz

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

— Soupy Sales

I've never written a hard journalism piece in my life. I've never wanted to do that.

— Laurence Shames

“I was driven to go into book writing by the very nature of journalism and blogging. Both are ephemeral. Journalists and bloggers can have…

— Barista Uno

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

— Svetlana Alexievich

I have been a journalist, off and on, since I was 17. I was a copy boy for the 'New York Times,' when it…

— Michael Ignatieff

After seven years of writing - and working many jobs to support my family - I finally got published.

— Lloyd Alexander

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 wrote for magazines. I wrote adventure stuff, I wrote for the 'National Enquirer,' I wrote advertising copy for cemeteries.

— Walter Dean Myers

For many years I was engaged in journalism, writing articles and chronicles for the daily press without ever joining the staff of any newspaper.

— Anonymous

I had, like any other young novelist, started out by believing the difficult thing was to get published and that, once you managed that,…

— Mordecai Richler