Bobby Ghosh Quotes

I went into journalism to learn the craft of writing and to get close to the world I wanted to write about - police and criminals, the criminal justice system.

I've had a lot of fun, and when I talk to kids in journalism schools, I say, look, I know what the journalism teachers tell you that this is a great way to perform public service and all that, but I say the main reason, if you decide what you want to do is be a reporter, the main reason you want to do it is because it's just so much fun.

I always wanted to be a serious journalist.

If I wasn't an actor, I'd probably be working in journalism.

Well I just always wanted to be a newspaper reporter.

Most of the stories I have covered in 45 years have been gray stories.

I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a reporter. I don't know where I got the idea that it was a romantic calling.

Maybe it is because of Facebook or something else, but I have been interested in journalism for a long time.

I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it.

I liked journalism and thought it was important, certainly more important than fiction. I'd probably still be doing it if I hadn't been elbowed out.

When I bought 'The New York Observer,' my experience in journalism was limited to a single article I had written for a college magazine.

My favorite thing is still journalism. I'm almost 50. This has been my life ever since I was in college.

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

I like to say that journalism is the graduate school from which you never graduate.

I always imagined myself doing what Barbara Walters did on '20/20.' That, essentially, is what inspired me to go to journalism school.

I wanted to be a journalist so the character of a TV news person in 'Run Baby Run' was really interesting.

I studied journalism, though I never really became a scribe.

I always wanted to be part of the media. I knew I wanted to work as a journalist.

The passion and knowledge of journalism as storytelling is incredibly infectious.

A career in journalism suddenly lost its appeal.

Having been a journalist for thirty-nine years, I've developed a pretty thick skin.

I am not insecure about being a journalist.

When I left Toronto and entered journalism in the late 1990s, I had many notions about the news business, nearly all of them wrong, as it turned out.

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

There are many roads to journalism. My feeling is that your best bet in college is to study the subjects you will want to write about, whether politics, the environment or the law.