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I am not much of a researcher as a novelist; I write mainly from experience.

I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.

I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power.

I feel I'm functioning at some level as a journalist because even though I write fiction, I'm trying to get the world accurate.

I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.

I'm not a biographer, I'm a novelist.

I'm a social writer in the sense that I want to record, but not in the sense of trying to change people's minds.

A writer is what I am.

I am a news presenter, a news broadcaster, an anchorman, a managing editor - not a commentator or analyst.