Awake Quote by Mark Leibovich

I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive…

— J. Anthony Lukas

Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.

— Mitski

I've always been an outsider. I think, being in the White House press corps, it's difficult to do the sort of journalism that I…

— Katy Tur

Being a journalist always makes you a quick study of wherever you're at. You're out all the time and seeing places that normally you…

— Michael Connelly

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 realized I couldn't be a journalist because I like to take a side, to have an opinion and a point a view; I…

— Annie Leibovitz

I often felt myself to be an outsider, which is great training for all writers.

— Karen Russell

A good journalist, as you know, is a great listener. And so's a good writer. And I got to listen to people for almost…

— Louise Penny

I've never really felt like a journalist. I've felt like a writer and a diarist. I have made myself vulnerable in my writing, and…

— Tavi Gevinson

Being a journalist seemed the ideal way of both having a job and experiencing the world, especially for anyone with a sense of adventure.

— Jackie Kennedy

I've always believed that a writer has got to remain an outsider.

— Colin Wilson

I think of myself as a journalist and a storyteller.

— Soledad O'Brien