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I think if you look at the failure of journalism in the modern age, then I don't want to be called a journalist.

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

I couldn't have been the novelist I was without being the journalist I was.

I became a journalist because one didn't have to specialise.

And I can't think of a reason I'd ever use a pseudonym, as I wouldn't want to publish something that I didn't like enough to put my name on it.

Don't pretend to be a journalist if you're not a journalist.

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

I used to be a journalist.

If you are an upright journalist, nothing will happen to you.