When I was a freelancer, I thought this journalism thing was a racket, and now that I'm where I am now, I know it's a racket.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I used to be a journalist.
Somebody's always getting me to come lecture to their writing class, and I don't talk about writing at all, I talk about the business of making a living at this racket.
Journalism is, indeed, a noble calling, and I have much I hope to accomplish in the next phase of my career.
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.'
The dirty little secret of journalism is that it really isn't a profession, it's a craft. All you need is a telephone and a conscience and you're all set.
I greatly enjoyed working as a freelance journalist, because it gets you out of the house, and it gets you talking to people, but it wasn't satisfying all of my cravings, and I knew that I needed to work with the other side of my brain - the darker, murkier side!
I had discovered journalism to be my life's ambition.
There's some irony in playing a journalist after some of the stuff that has been written about me, but it's a great profession, particularly investigative journalism.
I think of myself as a journalist and a storyteller.
Journalism is a kind of profession, or craft, or racket, for people who never wanted to grow up and go out into the real world.