David Baldacci Quotes

More people will watch 'Spotlight' than will ever read the 'Globe' series that inspired it.

A lot of college graduates approach me about becoming screenwriters. I tell them, 'Do not become a screenwriter, become a journalist,' because journalists go into worlds that are not their own. Kids who go to Hollywood write coming-of-age stories for their first scripts, about what happened to them when they were sixteen. Then they write the summer camp script. At the age of twenty-three they haven't produced anything, and that's the end of the career.

I'm a journalist; I love doing interviews, and I hope that will continue.

I think of myself as a journalist and a storyteller.

I feel like, in some ways, I'm just a journalist.

I had never been out covering a story, but boy, was that fun.

Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

I can't think of any other job in journalism where the newsmakers come to you.

I have a journalism degree, but I'd rather be the person who is being written about rather than the person who is writing.

I think there's always satisfaction that comes from digging in and telling a story and being on the front line and writing about it. I think there's a venue available if you look. Even print journalism is in good shape in areas.

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.

I thought journalism would enable me to be a mile wide and an inch deep.

There's nothing more exciting than to watch a story break and grow, and to be the first one to present it to the world.

I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.

Sportswriters have changed more than sportswriting.

I don't have a college degree. I started working at 19 on a tiny newspaper. I've covered everything from weddings to crime to criminal weddings.

News, news, news - that is what we want. You cannot beat news in a newspaper.

No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist.

I'm a journalist, so my friends are journalists: magazines, newspapers, even public radio. Nobody had their kids in public school.

I don't think I ever wanted to be a journalist - I was more interested in what comes from being a journalist.

After Watergate, which happened when I was in college, I became increasingly inspired by journalism as a way to change the world. It sounds corny, but to wake the public up, to serve a higher cause.

Report, report, report. Dig, dig, dig. Think, think, think. Don't stop being a reporter because you've become a columnist.

I like journalists.

I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.

There is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.