Bonnie Jo Campbell Quotes

As for editorial content, that's the stuff you separate the ads with.

I have written periodically for the Guardian for more than a decade.

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

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.

The great thing about journalism is that there is so much exposure to all kinds of people who can turn up later as characters, whether you intend it or not.

A lot of newspaper columns used to be written in a rat-a-tat-tat, fast-paced style - and they tended to be funny. They were a little relief from the grimmer, grayer parts of the newspaper, and one of the best people at doing this was Will Rogers.

I was editor of my high school literary magazine and a reporter for the school newspaper.

I wanted to be a journalist. I used to write articles at university about politics.

I always got appreciation for the columns I wrote for newspapers.

If you write satire, the guilty pleasure these days is that there's just so much material about. On the other hand, if you have a family it can be depressing.

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

I remember interviewing someone I actually felt bad for, and therefore didn't want to take an ironic stance against him. It actually turned out to be a really funny piece.

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 not an advocacy journalist - that's not what I do. My role in journalism is to be able to engage the most interesting people with the best ideas.

The deadlines are much, much longer with books. When I was a reporter, a lot of times I'd come in at 8:30 a.m., get an assignment right away, interview somebody, turn the story in by 9:30, and have the finished story in the paper that landed on my desk by noon.

I really like the Observer. I think I'd love to have a column with a broad reach that would enable me to do some proper reporting, but keep it on sort of a humorous level. I've always had a very happy experience writing for them.

In my first year or so at the 'Post,' I began to write with some frequency on the least important issues - so-called light editorials. The titles themselves are revealing of just how light: 'On Being a Horse,' 'Brains and Beauty,' 'Mixed Drinks,' 'Lou Gehrig,' and 'Spotted Fever.'

My freshman year at Harrison High School, I saw a journalism class where students were putting out a weekly newspaper. It touched a responsive chord in me.

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

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

When you do a piece of journalism, you may have to cut away 95 percent of what you are experiencing.

Journalism: an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space.

I wrote things for the school's newspaper, and - like all teenagers - I dabbled in poetry.

When I was 11 years old, I was a member of 'Press Pack,' which was a thing that would come out in 'The Sunday Times' in England. You'd write articles and send them off and would get a badge saying 'Official Press.' I was really excited about my badge.