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I was never a good journalist, because I would make things up. A lot of people frowned on that, which is why I ended up in fiction.

I was a very bad journalist. Awful. I would just invent everything. If I did an interview, I had a preconception of what that person should say and I would put my words in his mouth.

I used to be a journalist.

I'm a lousy journalist.

I would never have been a good reporter because I am not accurate regarding facts.

I am not one of the great journalists of my time.

And I wasn't a journalist any more than I was a trained nurse.

In a very straightforward way, I am a terrible reporter. I'm not someone who can go into a story and not get involved.

Don't pretend to be a journalist if you're not a journalist.

I did not read newspapers until I became a reporter.