Susan Campbell has brought Isabella's fascinating forgotten story back to life with the deep research of a born historian and the vibrant readable prose style of a veteran journalist.
As a journalist you have to think quickly, you're exposed to all types of people and situations and you've got to synthesize your thoughts in a very clear and concise way and write them down quickly. Those were all things that have proven really useful in my life as a television writer.
Actually, I graduated from university as a journalist.
Most journalists are broken down alcoholics.
Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.
I can't remember a single occasion when I have been kind to a journalist.
Last year, the journalist Malcolm Gladwell conducted a survey of chief executive officers of Fortune 500 companies for his book Blink. He discovered that while in the US population 14. 5 per cent of all men are 6ft (1. 83m) or taller, among CEOs of Fortune 500 companies the proportion is 58 per cent. And while 3. 9 per cent of American adults are 6ft 2in or taller, almost a third of the CEOs were that tall.
Everybody comes to the journalist with an agenda.
If you are a reliable, honest journalist, sources will open up and trust you and share good information.
Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.
The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.
As a journalist, the details always tell the story.
Trust is the most important aspect of being a journalist. If people don't trust or find you relatable - you will not have success.
Politicians are just Daily Mail journalists writ large, aren't they? They're always telling us what's going to happen, and we know they don't know!
No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist.
My inclination, as an old-school, classically trained journalist, is not to go with a story unless I have it hard. It's not good enough to say something based on rumors that were flying around.
I'm a journalist - I'm not Robert Caro. I have a day job, and a pretty consuming one - a joyfully consuming one.
I'd rather [the collection] have no title. Journalists like titles. That's why I give them to you.
The homosexual community wants me to be gay. The heterosexual community wants me to be straight. Every [writer] thinks, "I'm the journalist who's going to make him talk". I pray for them. I pray that they get a life and stop living mine!
Becoming a politician is the only step down I could take from being a journalist.