Danielle Campbell Quotes

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

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

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

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 love journalism.

I think of myself as a journalist and a storyteller.

Writing is as big a part of my career as acting is, financially and time wise. So, yeah, I love it. That's all I wanted to do since I was young was be a writer. So that and acting are the two most important aspects of my career.

I'm a writer and this is what I love to do.

I'm not a journalist. I have not gone to school for this.

I realized that acting isn't necessarily what I love, but it's what I do. But I really do love filmmaking.

A lot of college graduates approach me about becoming screenwriters. I tell them, 'Do not become a screenwriter, become a journalist,' because journalists go into worlds that are not their own. Kids who go to Hollywood write coming-of-age stories for their first scripts, about what happened to them when they were sixteen. Then they write the summer camp script. At the age of twenty-three they haven't produced anything, and that's the end of the career.

That's a paradox I've noticed, too: The news business held little romance for me, yet writing about it somehow stirred my affections.

I'd say I'm definitely an actor first and foremost, but I love filmmaking.

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

My passion is doing movies, and as long as I keep doing that, I'll be happy. I want to do movies, fun roles and dramatic ones. I love all of it.

Words are both my vocation and my avocation - reading, writing, editing, teaching.

My father was a journalist.

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 used to be a journalist.

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 love writing traditional magazine pieces, and especially their breadth of reporting and the deliberateness of the writing.

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

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.

Well, my background is journalism. I don't have any creative-writing experience except for one class I took as a sophomore in college.

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