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It turned out I really didn't like journalism. I wanted to make up stories, not cover real events.

I started out in the journalism program, but I got kicked out. I wasn't very good at it. It wasn't where I wanted to be ultimately.

I kept sending out stories and getting rejected.

I was sports editor for my high school newspaper, but I think I shied away from journalism.

I expected to go into journalism or law.

I was a finalist for the Pulitzer as a reporter.

I got into journalism not to be a journalist but to try to change American foreign policy. I'm a corny person. I was a dreamer predating my journalistic life, so I got into journalism as a means to try to change the world.

I have been rejected 120 times, probably because I didn't write the right book.