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

I don't think, as a journalist, I'd ever get a story written. I'd probably spend five years researching it, and by the time I'd finish it, no one would be interested in it anymore.

I don't think I ever wanted to be a journalist - I was more interested in what comes from being a journalist.

I would never let myself knock out a journalist.

I'd gotten myself into a kind of journalism that wasn't really compatible with rearing an infant. I'd been a foreign correspondent for a long time and had this subspecialty in covering catastrophes. It had spoiled me a little because you have a tremendous amount of autonomy, and I couldn't really see being an editor in an office.

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'm not strong-willed enough or unkind enough... or maybe simply not wise enough to tell a journalist that a subject is out of bounds.

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.

I was a very bad journalist. Awful. I would just invent everything. If I did an interview, I had a preconception of what that person should say and I would put my words in his mouth.

I'd never compromise my position as a journalist by having a friendly relationship with a politician.