Career Quote by Tom Rachman

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

I'm still an old-school reporter at heart. Writing fiction satisfies my journalistic need to hear and relay the testimony of everyday people at the…

— Karen Traviss

One of the more morbid parts of the journalism business is the process of writing obituaries. Oftentimes, for older celebrities or historic figures, there's…

— Jason Johnson

I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.

— Zadie Smith

I started doing some interviews with elderly people in the family because I knew they would pass away and we would lose the power…

— Anthony Shadid

My mother was a reporter, and though she quit when they had kids, she still loved it. She told me about the people at…

— Candace Camp

Writers serve as the memory of a people. They chew over our public past.

— Annie Dillard

It is a fairly serious thing that you're doing if you're writing about people who are still alive and who still have a role…

— Peter Morgan

I was going to write an autobiography once. I started writing it, and then I thought, 'No, let them dig around when I'm dead.'

— Jeff Beck

My relationship with the journalists who covered the campaign was complicated. I often hid from the critical eye of their cameras and their omnipresent…

— Alexandra Kerry

I considered that I had to write stories about the people I had met, with whom I'd worked, the history of my books -…

— Anatoly Rybakov

There was Uncle Ken of mine about whom I wrote a lot of stories. I can always write stories about uncles and aunts and…

— Ruskin Bond