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I write as well as I can. I'm a journalist at heart, so it's the story that matters.

I'm an efficient, good, professional reporter. But I also write. And so what I try to do is write about places that I know that I care about intensely and write about them in a way that conveys the fact that I care.

Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.

I majored in journalism at Arizona State University, where I began writing the columns I write now, but I cannot, in good conscience, refer to myself as a writer. I'm a columnist, maybe a journalist, I guess I'm an author, but writer... no. That's not up to me to call myself, that's rather lofty. It's for the reader to decide.

I'm a writer; it's not just what I do, but who I am.

A writer writes. If you want to be a writer, write.

I think journalism is useful training for a writer in the way it takes the preciousness out of the pragmatic side of the craft.

I always like to have a buffer between me and journalism in general. Not just a reporter, but journalism.

I've always enjoyed writing, I graduated with a degree in English; I've done bits of journalism.

I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.