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I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers. -- Zadie Smith
Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers. -- Jimmy Breslin
I don't think there's a difference between writing for a newspaper or magazine and doing a chapter in a book. -- Rick Bragg
The major newspapers simply stopped writing about me, and my voice could no longer be heard on radio or television. -- Galina Vishnevskaya
I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years. -- Jennifer Weiner
The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication. -- Theodore Sturgeon
For many years I was engaged in journalism, writing articles and chronicles for the daily press without ever joining the staff of any newspaper. -- Johannes V. Jensen
I have a very long pre-writing process where I'm jotting down ideas in a notebook and ripping out relevant newspaper articles - a long fact-finding mission. -- Megan McCafferty
When I got a little older, I started writing for the high school newspaper, 'The Maroon Wave,' and that's when I fell in love with journalism. -- Jeannette Walls
Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their features and editorials. -- Marshall McLuhan
The newspaper is, in fact, very bad for one's prose style. That's why I gravitated towards feature stories where you get a little more leeway in the writing style. -- Tom Wolfe
I've always been a writer, and in high school, I was the editor of my school newspaper and I got a writing scholarship. It's always been a passion of mine. -- Zoe Lister-Jones
My grandfather had been a newspaper reporter, as was my uncle. They were pretty good writers and so I thought maybe somewhere down the line I would do some writing. -- Gene Hackman
The one thing a lifetime in the newspaper business teaches you is pace - you spend all your time trying to make sure that the reader's going to finish what you're writing. -- Carl Hiaasen
Suddenly the whole imagination of writing and editorial and newspaper and all these presumptions about who am I reading this, and who else other people may be, and all that, it's so grimly brutal! -- Robert Creeley
I don't listen to anything when I'm writing. I need total quiet, which is astounding, given that I spent years working for a newspaper and having to write features surrounded by ringing phones and people shouting. -- Jane Green
When you're writing for newspapers you have all these parameters. You can't swear, you have to use short paragraphs, all that. If you stay within those parameters, you have lots of freedom because you're writing for the next day. -- Chuck Klosterman
I started writing and photographing for different publications and finally ended up being the correspondent in South Asia, for the Geneva-based Journal de Geneve, which at one time used to be one of the best international newspapers in Europe. -- Francois Gautier
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
Working on newspapers, you're writing to a certain length, often very brief pieces; you tend to look for easy forms of humor - women can't drive, things like that. That's about the level of a lot of newspaper humor. It becomes a form of laziness. -- Tom Wolfe
Of course newspaper sportswriting is mostly terrible - and of course it is usually the best writing in the paper. -- Donald Hall
If you don't hit a newspaper reader between the eyes with your first sentence, there is no need of writing a second one. -- Arthur Brisbane
I loved writing for the school newspaper. I liked to report and interview people, but I really liked to write columns, funny columns. -- Bonnie Jo Campbell
Writing for a newspaper is like running a revolutionary war. You go to battle not when you are ready, but when action offers itself. -- Norman Mailer
For many years I was engaged in journalism, writing articles and chronicles for the daily press without ever joining the staff of any newspaper. -- Johannes V. Jensen
I had a job on a newspaper in Wisconsin, and I started off as most reporters did back then: writing obits and free ad giveaways. -- Scott Glenn
Our good time is sitting in a coffee shop with a newspaper, writing a line on the back of a napkin. That is the most fun comedians ever have -- Jerry Seinfeld

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