Lynsey Addario Quotes

My training really was at the 'New York Times,' you know. When I got there, I was literally supposed to stay there for five weeks, and I got lucky like nobody, you know, like nobody's business.

I used to be a journalist.

I began learning the sportswriting business very early in life.

My own career started in New York at the 'Associated Press', a fast-paced news agency where we rarely had time for deep reporting.

My father was a journalist.

I started as a print reporter.

I thank God I was a reporter before I became a writer.

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

If I hadn't met Scorsese, I would never have become a filmmaker. He has taught me everything I know about editing and has given me the best job in the world.

I wrote to the local news guy when I was 12 years old. I said, 'What do I need to do to be you one day?'

I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter.

I was spawned by some pretty good people in this business - Mr. Astaire, Mr. Tracy. They stopped and took their time to talk to people.

I wasn't the greatest reporter in the world, but I wasn't starting at zero.

I've gotten to work with some wonderful directors and people who have been great teachers to me.

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

There's never any time I think I'm a real journalist, because I don't have any of the qualifications or the intentions for that.

Well, I'm a writer by nature, and I got a little bit - a little taste of a daily fast-paced writing job, writing career, and I loved it.

I was fortunate that I was at newspapers for eight years, where I wrote at least five or six stories every week. You get used to interviewing lots of different people about a lot of different things. And they aren't things you know about until you do the story.

But, I think it's great to be able to work with established directors, and then also first-timers. I feel like you learn from both of them, but then you can go and share your knowledge with each of them. That's really fantastic!

But I'd say my best boss was Tom Barr, who was a partner at Cravath, Swain & Moore in the 1960s. It's because I learned so much from him.

For many years I was engaged in journalism, writing articles and chronicles for the daily press without ever joining the staff of any newspaper.

I worked for some very good people who have helped me along the way and actually enabled me to have the opportunity to be selected to join the Astronaut Corps.

I started off as a journalist when I was young and I did not get paid unless I wrote three stories a day.

I have been lucky enough to work with the world's best designers and top stylists - who have been my mentors.

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