Quiara Alegria Hudes Quotes

I'm big on research. I love research, so I tend to do a lot of reading.

What I love - and I'm a journalist - and what I love is finding hidden patterns; I love being a data detective.

I love doing research.

When I was there, something clicked in my head; I found myself interviewing people, searching out facts and figures. Later on I became much more self-conscious of what I was doing.

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

I am addicted to research, let's say.

It is easy to make stuff up - and easy to dig up information and repeat it or report it to others. But to find a real life story with real people in real life situations is quite difficult and time-consuming. Yet, the rewards are worth the effort.

People often talk about parachute journalism, but one of the skills that you get when you are a correspondent is the ability to look at facts fast and work out what the story is.

I'm a reporter by nature, I want to know everything.

Great questions make great reporting.

Scepticism is as important for a good journalist as it is for a good scientist.

I've played journalists before, and I have good friends who are journalists. I think being an actor is not very far from being a journalist. Because you investigate, you try to understand, you're asking questions, you're interested in the other.

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

My best stories come from well-placed sources who point me in the right direction.

Reporters have to use their imagination, really put themselves in the shoes of the person they want to interview.

I wanted no other job than to work in newspapers. I was fascinated by the process of collecting information, talking to people and having the story appear in a paper that would be delivered in your letterbox.

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

I totally consider Fishbowl my full time job - I have to say I freaking love doing this blog. I just enjoy the medium so much; I love the fact that it requires me to read amazing stuff by hilarious and talented people and forces me to know what's going on in the world.

The first step in good reporting is good snooping.

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

I love research. I'd go so far as to say I'm a research fanatic.

I have gone on the air and announced my telephone number at the Washington Post. I go into the night, talking to people, looking for things. The great dreaded thing every reporter lives with is what you don't know. The source you didn't go to. The phone call you didn't return.

What I do for a living is ask questions.

Being a journalist always makes you a quick study of wherever you're at. You're out all the time and seeing places that normally you wouldn't get to see. It gives you an unusual level of insight into any place.

The heart and soul of good writing is research; you should write not what you know but what you can find out about.