Erik Larson Quotes

I started as a print reporter.

Well I just always wanted to be a newspaper reporter.

I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a reporter. I don't know where I got the idea that it was a romantic calling.

I always wanted to be a serious journalist.

I was a finalist for the Pulitzer as a reporter.

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 first newspaper job was a high school reporter for the 'New York Daily News.'

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

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

I never knew what a reporter looked like.

I'm a journalist; I love doing interviews, and I hope that will continue.

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 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.

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.

In the beginning, my mother humored me when I told her I wanted to be a reporter.

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.

I used to be a print reporter.

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

I miss particularly the managing editor role on the 'Evening News.'

Anybody who's spent thirteen or fourteen years in print journalism has a lot of stories he thinks were inwardly satisfying as far as preparation, understanding, and diligence.

I want to be a journalist; I want to ask tough questions.

I am a writer who happens to use some tools of journalism.

I got into journalism, actually, when I started my graduate program at Portland State and ended up becoming the multimedia editor of the student paper and covered very uninteresting stories on campus: this culture event, dance night.

In college, I got an internship at my local station in Honolulu one summer, and I just fell in love with broadcast news, reporting, and storytelling. After college, I started out at NBC, and I worked behind the scenes at 'Today' and 'Dateline.'