Attribute Quote by Mara Brock Akil

I've always been a writer, I've always been a storyteller, but I never thought about screenwriting.

— Diablo Cody

I think journalism is useful training for a writer in the way it takes the preciousness out of the pragmatic side of the craft.

— Kevin Barry

Writing in journalism teaches you to be very comfortable taking criticism, being edited, and rewriting.

— Neil Drumming

Journalism is very much public writing, writing with an audience in mind, writing for publication, and frequently writing quickly. And I know that when…

— Achy Obejas

I'm an efficient, good, professional reporter. But I also write. And so what I try to do is write about places that I know…

— Alma Guillermoprieto

I never intended to have a career as a journalist, writing about people who make movies. I did it as something that was really…

— Curtis Hanson

I have a journalism degree, but I'd rather be the person who is being written about rather than the person who is writing.

— Chris Jericho

My experience as a newspaper reporter was invaluable in terms of getting me to the kind of writing I do now. It gave me…

— Michael Connelly

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

— Svetlana Alexievich

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

From journalism I learned to write under pressure, to work with deadlines, to have limited space and time, to conduct and interview, to find…

— Isabel Allende

For me, screenwriting is all about setting characters in motion and as a writer just chasing them. They should tell you what they’ll do…

— Justin Zackham