Books Quote by Robert Harris

I wanted to be a journalist. I used to write articles at university about politics.

— Ana Patricia Botin

The fact that I have always been deeply invested in politics, and African politics in particular, inevitably played a role in my first novel…

— Dinaw Mengestu

I wrote about four novels before I wrote a word of journalism.

— Francine Prose

I write and teach creative nonfiction. I was a reporter.

— Eileen Pollack

I became a writer because I love books, and I believe in their power.

— Deb Caletti

I almost became a political journalist, having worked as a reporter at the time of Watergate. The proximity to those events motivated me, when…

— Michael Sandel

I was a political journalist for a long time. I wrote a book about Putin. I made all kinds of trouble.

— Masha Gessen

My political position springs from my being a novelist. In so far as I am concerned, politics and the novel are an indivisible case…

— Ghassan Kanafani

My first real writing job was at 'Rolling Stone,' so I wrote about rock-and-roll and politics and the like. At the time, I really…

— Tim Cahill

After working as a journalist I went to a writing program at Johns Hopkins. It was interesting because it was neither journalistic nor historical,…

— Iris Chang

I've basically worked as a journalist and a writer.

— Laura Moser

I went into journalism in a grandiose way. I thought maybe I'd do a little journalism whilst I write the great novel of all…

— Neal Ascherson