Greater Quote by Michael Connelly

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 have dictated stories from an airport after writing the story out in longhand on the plane that I got from phone interviews and…

— Rick Bragg

I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.

— Barton Gellman

I write as well as I can. I'm a journalist at heart, so it's the story that matters.

— Robert Harris

My job is writing for people to enjoy and then writing about a broader and a deeper world.

— Walter Mosley

My job is to get people to write something truthful, something about truth and beauty - wherever they are - and to understand how…

— Grace Paley

I worked very hard as a young journalist learning the trade and asking questions, understanding what a story is and being able to present…

— Jill Douglas

“If you want to write, start writing now in your own home town and write every day as hard as you can; do not…

— Thomas Wolfe

I was fortunate that I was at newspapers for eight years, where I wrote at least five or six stories every week. You get…

— Chuck Klosterman

I try to write about things, places, events, and phenomena I know about personally. That helps make the novels more genuine.

— Lincoln Child

I think you work on the roles that draw you in and the stories you want to tell.

— Matt Bomer

I thought I was a pretty good writer, but I didn't have anything to write about. I wanted to go out in the world,…

— Shane Smith