Day Quote by Michael Connelly

I've always been a writer. I started getting paid for writing in college. Where it transitioned from commentary to journalism was in that shift…

— Melissa Gira Grant

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

— Neil Drumming

I think journalist is a great profession. It's complicated now. People talk about the demise of investigative reporting.Newspapers play an amazing role in our…

— Seymour Hersh

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

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

Nowadays I'm not even sure if newspapers take into account whether a person is a good writer.

— Bob Schieffer

Reporters have a different point of view and a different job. Consequently, to the extent that you can help them turn in an interesting…

— Roger Ailes

Journalism has been very important for me - for a long time I made my living as a journalist, and it also serves as…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

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

The newspaper is, in fact, very bad for one's prose style. That's why I gravitated towards feature stories where you get a little more…

— Tom Wolfe

Being a good writer doesn’t make you a good reporter, it takes hustle.

— David Carr

My grandfather had been a newspaper reporter, as was my uncle. They were pretty good writers and so I thought maybe somewhere down the…

— Gene Hackman