Comfortable Quote by Neil Drumming

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

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

As a writer I'm merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

What helps change bad writing into mediocre writing is editing. Editing is in bad shape in print journalism, and is in virtually nonexistent shape…

— Robert Christgau

Many fiction writers write for the critics or for themselves; they forget the common reader. I never do. I don't think journalism clashes with…

— Isabel Allende

Journalism is a craft that takes years to learn. It's like golf. You never get it right all the time. It's a game of…

— Ben Huh

I have always had a hard time revising my work as a journalist, which was never much of a problem. You always have editors…

— Jon Weisman

Writing is rewriting. A writer must learn to deepen characters, trim writing, intensify scenes. To fall in love with the first draft to the…

— Richard North Patterson

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

— Svetlana Alexievich

I wrote for a weekly magazine and then edited a literary magazine, but I did not really feel comfortable with the profession of journalism…

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I often attribute my screenwriting to journalism because they drill in the who, what, when, where and why - but we really need to…

— Mara Brock Akil