John Carreyrou Quotes

A career in journalism suddenly lost its appeal.

I grew up with 'The Denver Post' and the 'Golden Transcript.' There was never a moment that I thought I'd work at the 'New York Times.' My goal, starting out, was just to see if I could be a journalist.

I became a journalist because one didn't have to specialise.

Chicago, with its big newspapers and major broadcasting stations, couldn't have been a better city to start a journalism career.

I liked journalism and thought it was important, certainly more important than fiction. I'd probably still be doing it if I hadn't been elbowed out.

I'd like to get back into journalism. I'm hoping someone will offer me a job as a commentator or one of those political analysts that you see on the news shows all the time.

I started on the fringes of journalism as a cartoonist on The Daily Mail.

I was thinking of applying to the 'Guardian' for a job after university. Yeah, I wanted to be one of the people who writes stories in G2.

And I've been incredibly lucky to have a long career in journalism that has given me a front-row seat to some of the most important moments in modern American political life.

It was a June day when I began my career as a national journalist. I stepped into the Detroit Bureau of the 'Wall Street Journal' and started on what would be a long, varied, rewarding career. I was 23 years old, and the year was 1970.

I wanted to be a journalist so the character of a TV news person in 'Run Baby Run' was really interesting.

I started at 'The Daily Telegraph' as a daily news reporter. I moved then to 'The Guardian,' and then I moved to New York as the correspondent for 'The Guardian,' moved to 'The Times of London.' And really, it was the best job you could imagine. You could cover any story you wanted in America.

My father was a journalist. He used to write for 'Blitz' tabloid.

I always wanted to be part of the media. I knew I wanted to work as a journalist.

Growing up, I wanted to be a journalist. I was in love with Lisa Ling, who's a broadcast journalist and who travels the world. I used to read all of her articles and watch her when she'd go to China or South Africa or Australia. I thought that was the coolest job because she got to travel and tell people's stories.

There's not a better job in journalism than the one we have, seriously on '60 Minutes' - not a better job.

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

Actually, I graduated from university as a journalist.

Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pygmy hatreds.

I felt the call to this industry because I enjoy broadcast journalism. I'm steeped in the news because I enjoy the news - I like reading papers; I like reading the blogs. I love talking to newsmakers and pundits, for that matter, about their opinions. I'm an information gatherer by nature, so that's what attracted me about this industry.

My dad was a news editor for a Brazilian news station, and they had offices in New York and London.

Before I ever heard about '60 Minutes,' I had been a writer, a columnist for 'Life' magazine and for 'Newsweek' - that was about as high as you could get in column writing. I care about my writing. I'm not a quack-quack TV journalist.

I had discovered journalism to be my life's ambition.

I like to say that journalism is the graduate school from which you never graduate.

Some years ago, I was fortunate enough to land a reporting job at 'The Washington Post,' which pretty much put me in a state of constant awe. Bob Woodward would dish up ice cream sundaes for anyone stuck working on the weekend.