Alma Guillermoprieto Quotes

I think that, for physicians who want to become writers, they have the material, the smarts, they have the logic, they know the stories; it's just a matter of being able to connect with their emotional sides - that's the key to writing good fiction.

I like writing my own material - I'm pretty good at it.

I had the most incredible English and literature teachers in school, and it really influenced my love of storytelling. It's what made me excited to study journalism in college. I love editorials and documentaries. All of that came from being given the opportunity to lose myself in good writing when I was a kid.

Being a journalist is good if you want to write books: it teaches you to get beyond the blank screen. My books have been described as froth, but there's scope to be witty and ironic about everything in life.

Forget market or publishers or whatever. Just write with fire and joy, and in my own experience, those are the stories of mine people have wanted to read.

I would say if you want to write, write what you care about. I think that's the most important thing. I think if you write what you care about, you stand a better chance of having the reader care about your story.

I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.

I'm a firm believer in putting your experiences in your writing, of bleeding into the page.

My experience as a newspaper reporter was invaluable in terms of getting me to the kind of writing I do now. It gave me a work ethic of writing every day and pushing through difficult creative times. I mean, there's no writer's block allowed in a newsroom.

I love to write. I have always loved writing. That was my first love.

The reporting has always been what drives me.

I never take ideas from the headlines. I feel that if a story is good enough, a real story that is, then it's already been covered by the media, and if it's not good enough, why would I want to bother with it?

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

A good journalist is modest; his only job is simple: to decide what counts as news.

The only thing that remained consistent over the years was my ability and enthusiasm to tell the story.

I've always loved writing.

Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.

Back when I taught middle school and wrote adult mysteries, my students often asked me why I wasn't writing for kids. I never had a good answer for them. It took me a long time to realize they were right.

I started writing by doing small related things but not the thing itself, circling it and getting closer. I had no idea how to write fiction. So I did journalism because there were rules I could learn. You can teach someone to write a news story. They might not write a great one, but you can teach that pretty easily.

Whenever you can bring your chops in as a reporter to unearth a cool story, that's always a good thing.

I just want to tell a good story, so I always ask myself, 'Are these people real to me?'

Writing is a great love of mine.

I'm not famous for my back story investigations; I'm lucky that I work with good writers and it's usually in the script.

My grandfather had been a newspaper reporter, as was my uncle. They were pretty good writers and so I thought maybe somewhere down the line I would do some writing.

I'm not a big fan of journalism schools, except those that are organized around a liberal arts education. Have an understanding of history, economics and political science - and then learn to write.