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Well I just always wanted to be a newspaper reporter.

I was so thrilled being a reporter, because it gave you the kind of access to people that you wouldn't ever get to meet.

I used to be a print reporter.

Well, one of the things I discovered in the course of looking back and writing about what I saw in my memory is that I was a closely observant person long before I became a reporter.

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

I think people of my generation became journalists - you know, right after the broadcast pioneer fathers - because we wanted to report the big stories.

I'm still an old-school reporter at heart. Writing fiction satisfies my journalistic need to hear and relay the testimony of everyday people at the center of events.

There is no doubt that the way journalism worked when I was growing up and getting started has changed forever.

I did not read newspapers until I became a reporter.