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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.

Great journalism will always attract readers. The words, pictures and graphics that are the stuff of journalism have to be brilliantly packaged; they must feed the mind and move the heart.

Speaking generally, people who are drawn to journalism are interested in what happens from the ground up less than they are from the top down.

I'm fascinated by journalism. I put a keen eye, not a negative eye, on its role, particularly how it is changed by the times we're living in.

I think the most important thing journalism taught me is to mine for details. The details are key. You can't try to be funny or strange or poignant; you have to let the details be funny or strange or poignant for you.

I find it interesting, the different rules that apply to journalism and drama, even though journalism has become more and more about entertainment, and entertainment has become more and more about journalism.

In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.

I think journalism is useful training for a writer in the way it takes the preciousness out of the pragmatic side of the craft.

Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.

Journalism is a flawed profession, but it has a self-correcting mechanism. The rule of journalism is: talk to everybody.