Gillian Flynn 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.

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 am not one of the great journalists of my time.

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 had discovered journalism to be my life's ambition.

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

I studied journalism, though I never really became a scribe.

I expected to go into journalism or law.

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

I grew up with 'The Denver Post' and the 'Golden Transcript.' There was never a moment that I thought I'd work at the 'New York Times.' My goal, starting out, was just to see if I could be a journalist.

I think of myself as a journalist and a storyteller.

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

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

I'd been involved in journalism for a long time - my dad's a journalist, he's written many books, and when I was twelve years old I wrote reports on local football matches for the newspapers.

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

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

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

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.

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

I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it.

Deep in my heart it still feels like I'm a journalist even though I haven't worked for a paper and carried a press pass for 14 years.

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

Great reporters get people to talk to them. Master reporters get people to want to talk to them.

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