Jeannette Walls Quotes

If I weren't acting, I'd study journalism because I love to write.

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

Many writers learned their craft and work ethic at a newspaper. I benefited from that.

I love journalism.

I got into journalism, actually, when I started my graduate program at Portland State and ended up becoming the multimedia editor of the student paper and covered very uninteresting stories on campus: this culture event, dance night.

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

I think of myself as a journalist and a storyteller.

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.

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.

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.

I'm a journalist, so my friends are journalists: magazines, newspapers, even public radio. Nobody had their kids in public school.

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

I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.

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

I had discovered journalism to be my life's ambition.

When I was at a newspaper, I knew what an opportunity that was, and I religiously protected my time on the cop beat.

I'm a journalism junkie.

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

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

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