Ambition Quote by Tom Junod

There's no reason that a writer, if they have some discipline and curiosities and passion, can't be vital for a long, long time.

— Peter Hedges

Evidently there are plenty of people in journalism who have neither got what they liked nor quite grown to like what they get. They…

— Claud Cockburn

For many imaginative writers, working for the press is a fact of their life. But it's best not to like it too much.

— Hilary Mantel

We are living in an era of such interesting new forms, and certainly narrative non-fiction has emerged as a major form. People who are…

— Daniel Mendelsohn

There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.

— E. L. Doctorow

That's a huge subject - a writer refusing to do publicity but writing about publicity.

— Ann Goldstein

I've never liked the publishing world's determination to pigeonhole every writer into a genre.

— Joe R. Lansdale

“Journalist is not a profession; it is a trade. It can never rise to the status of a profession because journalists would have to…

— Dov Ivry

No writer for the press, however humble, is free from the burden of keeping his purpose high and his integrity white.

— John Boyle O'Reilly

As far as I'm concerned, it's a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards,…

— Hunter S. Thompson

To have no ideas and being able to express them is the essence of journalism.

— Karl Kraus

There can be no press freedom when journalists exist in conditions of corruption, poverty and fear.

— Aidan White