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I thank God I was a reporter before I became a writer.

I've always thought of myself as a reporter.

It's astonishing what you learn and feel and see along the way. That's why a reporter's job, as you know, is such a joy.

I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a reporter. I don't know where I got the idea that it was a romantic calling.

Well, one of the things I discovered in the course of looking back and writing about what I saw in my memory is that I was a closely observant person long before I became a reporter.

Someday perhaps I'll have to get a grownup job... but for now I'm having too much fun being a reporter.

Well I just always wanted to be a newspaper reporter.

When I was a general assignment reporter early in my career, I was the one knocking on their door after a tragedy.

My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests.

I am grateful that as a reporter and as an anchor, people have allowed me to share their stories.