Toby Young Quotes

I had a column in high school for our school newspaper. I enjoy writing.

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

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 love writing traditional magazine pieces, and especially their breadth of reporting and the deliberateness of the writing.

I'm a writer. I've been a journalist for my whole adult life.

I write for 'Self' magazine sometimes.

I've basically worked as a journalist and a writer.

If I weren't acting, I'd study journalism because I love to write.

I write a syndicated column for The Washington Post that goes to about 200, 250 papers.

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

I write articles, and I do profiles of members of organizations and associations.

I think of myself as a journalist and a storyteller.

What a fantastic honour to be given the opportunity to write a column in the first ever 'Sunday Sun.'

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

I used to be a journalist.

All they expected me to do was rip and read the wire 'leads,' without doing any original reporting. It was pretty basic, but gave me a taste of how to combine my love of politics and broadcasting.

Everything is a narrative in life. I learned that early on as a reporter at the 'Washington Post.'

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.

I really think more fledgling novelists - and many current and even established novelists - should get out into the real world and cover local politics, sports, culture, and crime and write it up on deadline.

Well, my background is journalism. I don't have any creative-writing experience except for one class I took as a sophomore in college.

I had a great editor, Rebecca Corbett, from the time I was a city reporter right through to the years I worked on the 'Sun's' enterprise reporting team.

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

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

I was in Bucks County at the 'Bucks County Currier Times,' which is a great place to start for any reporter who wants to start out.

I've always thought of myself as a journalist; that was what I did.