America Quote by Lynne Tillman

I didn't go into journalism thinking it would solidify my identity. I did it because I needed to make a living, and I was…

— Alex Tizon

“I was a born empiricist. I believed that writers were paid to pretend, and where appropriate should make use of the real world, the…

— Ian McEwan

I guess I went into journalism to save the world. I always felt through writing that I wanted to rotate the world slightly.

— Carl Honore

“I was winning awards, getting raises, lecturing college classes, appearing on TV shows, and judging journalism contests. And then I wrote some stories that…

— Gary Webb

I thought it was a glorious thing to be a critic and to be a literary editor, and one was really doing something that…

— Claire Tomalin

For me, it was a formative experience reading Eliot when I was younger. 'The Waste Land,' in particular.

— Claire Messud

The writers I respect the most had an undying commitment to a vision.

— Anonymous

“I'm an unabashed elitist. Everyone needs a good editor, and there is peril in worshiping amateurism and the unedited in science, art, and journalism.”

— K Lee Lerner

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

— Tom Barbash

I'd begun to realize that there was an unspoken predjudice among book-learned people, a secret conviction they all seemed to share, that life as…

— Anonymous

My interests were aroused, and my faith in the cliches of the subject destroyed, as so often with other subjects, by the discussions with…

— George Stigler

I think that part of being a good journalist, part of being an awake member of the world you're in, is to view yourself…

— Mark Leibovich