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There are dozens of great American writers who write about the family.

Nowadays I'm not even sure if newspapers take into account whether a person is a good writer.

Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all.

I did not read newspapers until I became a reporter.

The best writers who have put pen to paper have often had a journalism background.

I didn't work for any newspapers in college, never worked for any newspaper before 'The Washington Post'.

My grandfather had been a newspaper reporter, as was my uncle. They were pretty good writers and so I thought maybe somewhere down the line I would do some writing.

I always saw the best reporters as ones you hardly ever saw other than when they were back in the newsroom, writing their stories.

And we also read Newsweek, Time and several newspapers.