Colum McCann Quotes

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.

Find out what happened and put it in the paper

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

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

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 wrote newspaper articles professionally for seven years, and I love newspapers.

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.

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

I remember everyone in high school thought I should be a journalist because I looked like Connie Chung.

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

I was brought up in a publishing home, a newspaper man's home, and was excited by that, I suppose. I saw that life at close range and, after the age of ten or twelve, never really considered any other.

I've basically worked as a journalist and a writer.

I wanted to be a journalist. I used to write articles at university about politics.

My dad founded the 'Rancho Santa Fe Times' and won a lot of journalism awards.

Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good.

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

My father was a journalist.

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 thought journalism would enable me to be a mile wide and an inch deep.

I'm a journalist - I'm not Robert Caro. I have a day job, and a pretty consuming one - a joyfully consuming one.

My dad was a sports writer when I was younger and then he became just a general columnist. But I grew up with him literally getting into brawls with football coaches.

Maybe it is because of Facebook or something else, but I have been interested in journalism for a long time.

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

I wanted to be a journalist for a long time.

No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist.