Campus Quote by Kevin Maney

I never really wanted to be a journalist, honestly. I always wanted to be a writer, and I thought the only way to apply…

— Michelle Zauner

I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college... I did other things.

— Jackie Kennedy

I didn't start off as a journalist; I started off as a poet. My ambition was to practise poetry. Then I found journalism, but…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

I eventually got a job with a television company, started to see how exciting journalism could be as a career, and decided that was…

— Anne Robinson

The desire to become a journalist came really because I very much like living abroad, and like to travel, and wanted to be paid…

— John Pomfret

When I was in college, there were a couple years there where I was just not sure what to do, and it was actually…

— Savannah Guthrie

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 always wanted to be a writer and the logical way to do that was journalism. I took up a course in Manipal; during…

— Nag Ashwin

I don't think I ever wanted to be a journalist - I was more interested in what comes from being a journalist.

— Benjamin Booker

I actually went to study journalism at Northwestern, thinking that would be my Plan B for a career. But then I realized, if I'm…

— Claire Coffee

I dont think I ever wanted to be a journalist - I was more interested in what comes from being a journalist.

— Benjamin Booker

I wanted to be a journalist for a long time.

— Jamie Bell