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I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.

My grandfather had been a newspaper reporter, as was my uncle. They were pretty good writers and so I thought maybe somewhere down the line I would do some writing.

I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.

I've written thousands of stories, started hundreds of news cycles.

I write pretty quickly. Write pretty fast. I was an old press service man. That was part of the necessity of that occupation.

I take a certain pride in having maintained a reputation for fast copy throughout my newspaper career. Fast-breaking stories left my typewriter in a hurry. Not great literature, perhaps, but fast, and usually accurate.

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

My aunt got me interested in journalism - she found an old typewriter, had it worked over, put it on the dining room table, gave me a stack of paper and said, 'Play like you're a writer.'

I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web.

I do a lot of writing. People don't actually know how much writing really I do.