Being able to create your own work, being able to indulge your own fantasies is so much better than journalism, so much more fulfilling than journalism, to me, that as long as I can continue to write fiction, I shall.
When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism.
I leaned in science class that everything that generates light generates a little bit of heat, but not everything that generates head generates light. So it is with journalism.
This was the premier broadcast of his show 1A.
That's what I like most about writing fiction over journalism: the easy metaphors!
What is a historian? Someone who doesn't write well enough to work on a daily.
I love writing journalism because it's all over in two hours and comes straight off the top of the head. Writing novels is soooooo much harder. It's the hardest thing I've ever done.
It is much easier to write a good Times leading article than a good joke in Punch.
I don't have any bone to pick with critics. In fact, if I wasn't a filmmaker I would probably be a film critic. Most of my bone is I would be a better film critic than most of the film critics I read.
