Felicity Jones Quotes

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

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 come from a long line of people that write. My folks ran a weekly newspaper.

I was brought up in a publishing home, a newspaper man's home, and was excited by that, I suppose. I saw that life at close range and, after the age of ten or twelve, never really considered any other.

My dad founded the 'Rancho Santa Fe Times' and won a lot of journalism awards.

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 think of myself as a journalist and a storyteller.

What a fantastic honour to be given the opportunity to write a column in the first ever 'Sunday Sun.'

A newspaper is a circulating library with high blood pressure.

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

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.

I have a journalism degree, but I'd rather be the person who is being written about rather than the person who is writing.

I used to be a journalist.

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

Everything is a narrative in life. I learned that early on as a reporter at the 'Washington Post.'

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

I wrote for a weekly magazine and then edited a literary magazine, but I did not really feel comfortable with the profession of journalism itself.

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.

News, news, news - that is what we want. You cannot beat news in a newspaper.

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

The deadlines are much, much longer with books. When I was a reporter, a lot of times I'd come in at 8:30 a.m., get an assignment right away, interview somebody, turn the story in by 9:30, and have the finished story in the paper that landed on my desk by noon.

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.

Being on a book tour is a lot easier than reporting.