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My mother was a journalist, so writing is not unnatural to me. -- Ginger Rogers
I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them. -- Barton Gellman
I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power. -- Robert Harris
Now I'm doing a film festival for kids and writing a script about a kidnapped journalist in Afghanistan. -- Olivia Wilde
I've always called myself a journalist who happens to draw. If I wasn't drawing cartoons, I'd be writing stories. -- David Horsey
I've never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography. -- James Frey
I'd probably still be a financial journalist now if it weren't for writing novels. Mmm. Fun! I'm much happier writing novels! -- Sophie Kinsella
Novel writing should never be confused with journalism. Unfortunately, in the case of Primary Colors, a fair number of journalists confused. -- Joe Klein
Foreign journalists writing about Turkey like to focus on the most fundamental divide in Turkish society: the rift between religious conservatives and secularists. -- Mustafa Akyol
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 center of events. -- Karen Traviss
We're journalists, so our default position is we're not writing editorial. We're trying to bring information to readers, viewers, so that they can make up their own conclusions. -- Tim Hetherington
At school, a careers adviser asked me what I wanted to be, and I said 'fashion journalist,' so writing for 'Vogue' has provided me with the opportunity to fulfill a dream. -- Alexa Chung
Ultimately if you're a journalist, one day you're writing about figure skating, one day a political debate. I loved that about reporting. I like throwing my energies into various corners of the world. -- Jess Walter
Broadsheets can be scathing. But I have respect for broadsheet journalists because they haven't succumbed to degrading themselves, to writing pidgin English with all these terrible colloquialisms, the phrasing of which is just, like, embarrassing. -- Peaches Geldof
For years in football I was angry with the game, angry with pundits and, a lot of the time, angry with the journalists writing about me. All that changed when I got my break in movies. -- Vinnie Jones
I don't think Capote loved Smith. But he did make a deep connection. It upset some people, because that had never been the approach to journalistic crime writing, to look into the mind of the killer. -- Gerald Clarke
Probably having fallen in love with music and movies at a young age and then first learning about writing by kind of following the path of writers like Dave Marsh and Lester Bangs and being a rock journalist. -- Cameron Crowe
After working as a journalist I went to a writing program at Johns Hopkins. It was interesting because it was neither journalistic nor historical, but it emphasized writing style, and afterwards I was asked to write my first book. -- Iris Chang
I don't enjoy writing newspaper articles any more than people like reading them. I'm a standup comic, not a journalist, although sometimes onstage I will say: 'What else is in the news?' Writing is work, which I'm not comfortable with. -- Andy Kindler
See, I have no journalism in my background, so I wasn't practised at research or writing non-fiction, nor at handling the truth in a journalistic way. Journalists know when to call a halt and write something, but I kept on looking for answers. -- John Thomas Sladek
The writing of headline is one of the great journalistic arts. They either conceal or reveal am interest -- Claude C. Hopkins
I'm struggling at the end to get out of the valley of hectoring youth, journalistic middle age, imposture, moneymaking, public relations, bad writing, mental confusion. -- Stephen Spender

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