Bob Schieffer Quotes

I think of myself as a journalist and a storyteller.

I don't think there's any connection between my journalism career and my film career. They are two totally different mediums and very different skills.

The journalism school helped me develop writing skills, and I had been enjoying cartooning from a very young age. My interest in puppetry, however, came much later.

I think writing is such a great talent, and if I was better, I would love to be a writer.

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.

I'm a journalist, and I'm a filmmaker. I have an organization that's all about telling stories.

I write as well as I can. I'm a journalist at heart, so it's the story that matters.

I had the most incredible English and literature teachers in school, and it really influenced my love of storytelling. It's what made me excited to study journalism in college. I love editorials and documentaries. All of that came from being given the opportunity to lose myself in good writing when I was a kid.

There are times my stories become - what I feel - not only accessible to hearing me on television, but they make wonderful reading.

I didn't have a dream of being a press secretary, I had a dream of being a playwright; I had a dream of being a novelist and a poet.

I've always said I have one skill. That skill - if I have it at all - is storytelling.

I've always loved writing.

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.

I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.

I could learn how to press 'Record' on a tape recorder and write for a newspaper or a magazine.

Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life.

Writing is not an unknown territory for me.

What you compose with is neither here nor there, you compose with words, or you compose with stone plants and trees, or you compose with events; the Sheriff's officer, or whatever.

Writing is a great love of mine.

I am a writer, which means I write stories, I write novels, and I would write poetry if I knew how to. I don't want to limit myself.

The best writers who have put pen to paper have often had a journalism background.

Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.

I'm a writer who just happens to draw.

It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about.

In journalism I can only tell what happened. In fiction, I can show it.