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I got into journalism because I came of age in the '60s. It just seemed one way for me to get things done.

Actually, I wanted to become a journalist, but no matter who I imagined myself to be in the future, somehow I was sure: I would leave my hometown. I felt it was my destiny.

I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it.

My intent was to gain experience for fiction I eventually hoped to write. But there's no question I was drawn in by the hope that journalism would be a creative, thrilling environment.

When I was 26 or 27, I gave up journalism. I came to England after my mom died, to let serendipity take its course. And I just found myself back in journalism again.

I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college... I did other things.

I thought I wanted to be a journalist or a novelist.

There is no doubt that the way journalism worked when I was growing up and getting started has changed forever.

I always wanted to be a serious journalist.