Assuming Quote by William Gibson

The professions of novelist and journalist are very separate. As a novelist, you are ultimately working for yourself. Yes, you need the approval of…

— Jon Weisman

If you're a good journalist, you can probably be a good screenwriter or novelist. That skillset travels.

— Cord Jefferson

There are plenty of paths to becoming a writer, but I think the most reliable ones involve total commitment: writing for magazines and newspapers,…

— Chris Pavone

I'm not sure if you can strive your way into a career as a novelist. You have to write books; there are no short…

— Rachel Kushner

I always wanted to be a fiction writer, but I couldn't figure out how you could be a novelist and make any money, which…

— Anna Quindlen

I think journalism is useful training for a writer in the way it takes the preciousness out of the pragmatic side of the craft.

— Kevin Barry

There are people who have never studied writing who are capable of being writers. I know this because I am an example. I was…

— Elizabeth Berg

If you like to tell stories and compose sentences, and if you work hard at being good at these things, then you are a…

— Trenton Lee Stewart

I never really wanted to be a journalist, honestly. I always wanted to be a writer, and I thought the only way to apply…

— Michelle Zauner

I've always been a writer. I started getting paid for writing in college. Where it transitioned from commentary to journalism was in that shift…

— Melissa Gira Grant

I obviously prefer writing novels but I take my journalism very seriously, and I enjoy doing it between novels. It gives me an opportunity…

— Mordecai Richler

I started writing by doing small related things but not the thing itself, circling it and getting closer. I had no idea how to…

— Amy Hempel