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

I was a bad journalist.

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

I've always thought of myself as a reporter.

I became a journalist partly so that I wouldn't ever have to rely on the press for my information.

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 did not read newspapers until I became a reporter.

If someone says you're a reporter and doesn't want you to anchor then you wonder why you worked so hard at it.