No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.
Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.
If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist.
A good journalist is modest; his only job is simple: to decide what counts as news.
Being a journalist, you write what you see. If we can't do that, what use are we? I turned years of training on myself.
I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
There's never any time I think I'm a real journalist, because I don't have any of the qualifications or the intentions for that.
Writers are the ones who figure out how to put their observations into words.
Obviously, a writer can't know everything about what she writes. It's impossible.
My job as a reporter is not to know what I think.