Guillermo Cabrera Infante Quotes

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

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.

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

I'm in the reporting part of journalism.

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

I used to be a journalist.

I'm a journalist, so my friends are journalists: magazines, newspapers, even public radio. Nobody had their kids in public school.

I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.

I'm a journalist. I've been a journalist ever since I was 18.

I am old enough to think the word 'journalist' is not all that noble a designation. Journalist - that record keeper, quote taker and processor of press releases - was, in the world of letters I grew up in, a lower-down job. To be a writer - once the ambition of every journalist - was to be the greater truth teller.

I love collections. I got into journalism with the idea that I'd be doing them.

The news business is simple but it's not easy to do well. You know the story, you have to cover it, you need pictures, you need good writers, you have to get it to the screen but it's obviously not easy to do well.

I was the editor of the 'News of the World;' I was the editor of the 'Sun' and chief executive.

As for editorial content, that's the stuff you separate the ads with.

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

You're required to be outspoken in journalism, and in television you're exposed anyway, because everyone watches it.

I expected to go into journalism or law.

If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist.

I think of myself as a journalist and a storyteller.

I coauthored my first nonfiction book by the time I was 25. I have been involved in nonfiction documentaries, newspapers, TV and internet since that time.

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

It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about.

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 thought I wanted to be a journalist or a novelist.

I want to be an author.