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The training of a journalist, of working with words for thousands of hours, is extraordinarily useful for a fiction writer.

Journalism is a craft that takes years to learn. It's like golf. You never get it right all the time. It's a game of fewer errors, better facts, and better reporting.

There are a lot of really good skills you get from doing journalism - it completely changed my world and how I interact with other people.

In essence, I see the value of journalism as resting in a twofold mission: informing the public of accurate and vital information, and its unique ability to provide a truly adversarial check on those in power.

I think journalism is a great way to do public service, to have an impact on your community.

I think journalism is important.

Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world.

Journalism makes you think fast. You have to speak to people in all walks of life. Especially local journalism.

I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.