Compelling Quote by Jonathan Franzen

I think the deepest thing is that many fiction writers tell stories but are not elegant writers. But, we're not writing journalism when we're…

— Edward Hirsch

“One thing I understood from the beginning is that the press almost completely tunes out abstractions. They won’t write about ideas without larger-than-life personalities…

— Eric S. Raymond

Basically, all novelists should want to tell a story, and if they don't want to, they shouldn't be novelists. I think story-telling is important…

— Susan Howatch

The media doesn't create narratives, really. They're not that powerful. What they do is they tap into narratives that are already bubbling amongst their…

— Beau Willimon

Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can't reach.

— Hunter S. Thompson

There are times when I feel that the journalists go overboard to get a bit of juicy news, but I guess that's a part…

— Soha Ali Khan

I do think people need to recognize that a lot of journalists want to write a story a certain way because the story will…

— Ray Dalio

There has been far too much of journalists deciding they are on the side of something and going out to get the story, instead…

— Claire Fox

I think most people aren't really privy to how stories are developed and what stories are - make it to the front page or…

— Sean Spicer

All journalists hope that their work will inspire a broader conversation. I think that's just what journalism is.

— Sebastian Junger

I think part of the reason anyone goes into journalism is to get a response to what they write.

— Jacob Weisberg

Truth is stranger than nonfiction. And life is too interesting to be left to journalists. People have stories, but journalists have 'takes,' and it's…

— Walter Kirn