American Quote by Tom Wolfe

I got into journalism because I came of age in the '60s. It just seemed one way for me to get things done.

— Joe Klein

I got a journalism degree. I started doing journalism - I interned at 'Cosmopolitan' magazine in the 1970s, which probably wasn't the best place…

— Anne M. Mulcahy

I wanted to be a journalist for a long time.

— Jamie Bell

I started on the fringes of journalism as a cartoonist on The Daily Mail.

— Humphrey Lyttelton

I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college... I did other things.

— Jackie Kennedy

I had discovered journalism to be my life's ambition.

— Walter Cronkite

When I was 26 or 27, I gave up journalism. I came to England after my mom died, to let serendipity take its course.…

— Heather Brooke

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

— Mark Twain

I started as a journalist actually. I graduated from Northwestern Medill School of Journalism and with my degree discovered, once out in the real…

— Garry Marshall

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

— Ana Patricia Botin

I eventually got a job with a television company, started to see how exciting journalism could be as a career, and decided that was…

— Anne Robinson

The desire to become a journalist came really because I very much like living abroad, and like to travel, and wanted to be paid…

— John Pomfret