Karl Kraus Quotes

I think of myself as a journalist and a storyteller.

I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.

I think of myself as a journalist first and foremost.

Great questions make great reporting.

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

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'm not an advocacy journalist - that's not what I do. My role in journalism is to be able to engage the most interesting people with the best ideas.

To me, the newspaper business was a way to learn about life and how things worked in the real world and how people spoke. You learn all the skills - you learn to listen, you learn to take notes - everything you use later as a novelist was valuable training in the newspaper world. But I always wanted to write novels.

Report, report, report. Dig, dig, dig. Think, think, think. Don't stop being a reporter because you've become a columnist.

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

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

I think part of the reason anyone goes into journalism is to get a response to what they write.

To have no ideas and being able to express them is the essence of journalism.

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

I expected to go into journalism or law.

I think journalism is useful training for a writer in the way it takes the preciousness out of the pragmatic side of the craft.

Ultimately if you're a journalist, one day you're writing about figure skating, one day a political debate. I loved that about reporting. I like throwing my energies into various corners of the world.

I continue to enjoy looking for stories, and trying to do the best job I can reporting and writing them.

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.

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

Reporters have to use their imagination, really put themselves in the shoes of the person they want to interview.

We are in the business of gathering the news. We're not in the business of talking about the news.

There are a lot of really good skills you get from doing journalism - it completely changed my world and how I interact with other people.