Drive Quote by Nicholas D. Kristof

I am greatly influenced by my father who was a journalist.

— Jaya Bachchan

I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power.

— Robert Harris

My father was a newspaper editor, so I was surrounded by journalists my entire life. I think the fact that he was so well…

— Anna Wintour

I have been driven by causes in almost every major endeavor in my life, beginning when I was a 16-year-old in Southern California where…

— John W. Henry

I think I became a writer because I didn't know of anything else to do. Maybe some incident from my childhood influenced me.

— Patrick Modiano

So I became a newspaperman. I hated to do it but I couldnt find honest employment.

— Mark Twain

Being an Indian in the U.S. and growing up in the suburbs were the two things that really shaped my outlook.

— Sid Sriram

I grew up in Nagpur, and I first started enjoying the author Harishankar Parsai. He wrote mostly satire, essays on the current situation and…

— Rajkumar Hirani

I came from a lower-middle-class postwar family in a time of austerity and retrenchment, with no one in the family who was in any…

— Graham Swift

One of the most influential people in my life, in addition to my mother, was my grandfather P.V. Gopalan, who actually held a post…

— Kamala Harris

I was a scholarship minor public school day boy at Ardingly College and later Whitgift School. Then, straight into work as a journalist -…

— Neil Gaiman

I'd been involved in journalism for a long time - my dad's a journalist, he's written many books, and when I was twelve years…

— Colum McCann