Nithya Menen Quotes

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

I've had a lot of fun, and when I talk to kids in journalism schools, I say, look, I know what the journalism teachers tell you that this is a great way to perform public service and all that, but I say the main reason, if you decide what you want to do is be a reporter, the main reason you want to do it is because it's just so much fun.

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

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

I knew I was going to be a journalist when I was eight years old and I saw the printing presses rolling at the Sydney newspaper where my dad worked as a proofreader.

I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it.

I am not one of the great journalists of my time.

A career in journalism suddenly lost its appeal.

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

Well, I don't know how astute I am, but I did want to be a journalist when I was growing up.

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

No one in my family was a journalist, and it didn't seem like a real job. Part of me still doesn't think it is.

I've never wanted to do anything but be a newspaperman ever since I was 13.

I studied journalism at The University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill. I did my graduate work at Emerson in Boston, and I was actually a reporter for a year in New York and New Jersey. It dawned on me that I wasn't cut out for that line of work. I mean... there's a certain thing that really good reports have that I just didn't.

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

That's what I think a journalist from the '70s and '80s should look like - as though he has led a full journalistic life.

Very early in my career, I almost went to journalism school.

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

Choosing my favorite moment in journalism would be like picking a favorite among my children. I can't pick one favorite.

Even before I joined journalism, I knew that this is what I wanted to do. Tintin was an early inspiration.

When I started working for Rolling Stone, I became very interested in journalism and thought maybe that's what I was doing, but it wasn't true. What became important was to have a point of view.

Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.