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I was so thrilled being a reporter, because it gave you the kind of access to people that you wouldn't ever get to meet.

I've always thought of myself as a reporter.

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

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

Well I just always wanted to be a newspaper reporter.

So much of journalism is conveying a place and time that existed, to someone at a later date: giving a person the context and trying to make them feel as informed as if they were actually there.

I always felt journalists had a very clear idea of what they wanted to write about me before the interview began.

I've been a reporter for 20 years, and I don't ever get things wrong. That's important in terms of my professional status.

I don't think I ever wanted to be a journalist - I was more interested in what comes from being a journalist.

That's always been my test for what makes a story: is this something journalists would gossip with each other about?