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I'm an efficient, good, professional reporter. But I also write. And so what I try to do is write about places that I know that I care about intensely and write about them in a way that conveys the fact that I care.

I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.

I have a journalism degree, but I'd rather be the person who is being written about rather than the person who is writing.

I'm a writer. I just love telling stories.

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

If I haven't any talent for writing books or newspaper articles, well, then I can always write for myself.

Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.

I started writing by doing small related things but not the thing itself, circling it and getting closer. I had no idea how to write fiction. So I did journalism because there were rules I could learn. You can teach someone to write a news story. They might not write a great one, but you can teach that pretty easily.

I've always enjoyed writing, I graduated with a degree in English; I've done bits of journalism.