Quote

I wrote about four novels before I wrote a word of journalism.

— Francine Prose

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

←Previous Next→

✓Similar Perspectives

I had novels to write, so I wrote them.

— Octavia E. Butler

I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power.

— Robert Harris

I was quite a reader before I became a writer.

— Tom T. Hall

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.

— Marcia Muller

I couldn't have been the novelist I was without being the journalist I was.

— Pete Hamill

I am not a pure fiction writer, nor am I an academic writer. Somehow I ended up in this blended area of literary journalism.

— George Packer

I wasn't always a novelist. I began my writing career as a journalist, working on an afternoon newspaper in Sydney, Australia, doing the crime beat and court reporting. Having grown up in a small country town, I felt as though I had nothing to write about.

— Michael Robotham

Even though I got a late start, first publishing an essay when I was 50 years old, I've since written eight suspense novels.

— Hallie Ephron

I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.

— Naguib Mahfouz

✗Opposing Perspectives

After starting as a journalist for newspapers and magazines, I began to write books and had success with a novel and four nonfiction books for young adults.

— Jane Goldman