As a journalist, I never isolated myself. I was a journalist at a daily newspaper and every day I went out on the street. Every day I had contact with people. I interviewed the most important writers of the twentieth century, and into the twenty-first century, from Simone de Beauvoir, Marguerite Duras, and Marguerite Yourcenar to Christa Wolf.
My comments are reserved for reputable journalists.
That's why we have journalists, for stats.
When journalists come to interview me, it's a part of my life that is exhibited, as if pieces of clothing are being taken off one by one. But it's not very important really.
You know I take music seriously, right? So I expect journalists to take being a journalist seriously.
I wait for death and journalists.
I want you to understand clearly, I am not a journalist - be very clear on that. I am an opinion maker.
There's many heroic underappreciated investigative journalists.
Just because I've got blonde hair and haven't been to Bosnia doesn't mean I'm a bimbo. I am still a serious journalist.
I am sensitive to the value of faith and religion and spirituality in people's lives because I'm a journalist.
Journalists are too poorly paid in this country to know anything that is fit for publication.
A woman journalist in England asked me why Americans usually wrote about their childhood and a past that happened only in imagination, why they never wrote about the present. This bothered me until I realized why - that a novelist wants to know how it comes out, that he can't be omnipotent writing a book about the present, particularly this one.
History is written by victors and, occasionally, sensationalist journalists. I mean that with the best respect.
I think we're all actors. There's this friend of mine who's a great drummer, and he said, "I never thought I'd be a drummer, but I got really good at it. I always feel like I'm an actor playing the drums. " His real calling was that he was going to be a magician. That's what he felt like he wanted to do. If you decide to act like a journalist, you'll probably be a better journalist than just being a journalist. What you're doing is, you're taking the executive role and stepping outside yourself so that you're able to make more objective decisions.
Journalists have to do their job. And journalists have to resist emotionalism. You have to keep your cool and to continue to do your job until you're prevented.
As a journalist, I've felt as if it's a privilege that people share their stories and want you to be the messenger. . . . Even in my current job, when I go abroad, I'm racing to get back to the president and the secretary to share what I've seen.
For the journalist, anything probable is gospel truth.
I write as well as I can. I'm a journalist at heart, so it's the story that matters.
I’m a journalist; I run to the fire, that’s what we do.
You have to draw lines between being a journalist and an activist.