I have obsessed about my weight in some sort of way all my life. I used to write in my journal what I weighed every day.
When I got a little older, I started writing for the high school newspaper, 'The Maroon Wave,' and that's when I fell in love with journalism.
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.
Journalism students need to understand it and need a solid background in the liberal arts, in sociology, economics, literature and language, because they won't get it later on.
I don't think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It's lonely out here.
There is no doubt that the way journalism worked when I was growing up and getting started has changed forever.
In journalism, a fact is just a fact. But in fiction, you have to build your case. It has to be made, step by step.
Choosing my favorite moment in journalism would be like picking a favorite among my children. I can't pick one favorite.
I think journalism gets measured by the quality of information it presents, not the drama or the pyrotechnics associated with us.
I wrote for a weekly magazine and then edited a literary magazine, but I did not really feel comfortable with the profession of journalism itself.
I don't think there's any connection between my journalism career and my film career. They are two totally different mediums and very different skills.
I have been an outsider in journalism and in the academy, because I never fully belonged to any of them.
Stanford had no journalism program so I just learned by doing, effectively.
Journalism can go right up to the door of the room in which the decisions are made. A novel can go inside the room - and inside the character's heads.
Journalism still, in a democracy, is the essential force to get the public educated and mobilized to take action on behalf of our ancient ideals.
I get 'USA Today,' the 'New York Times,' 'Wall Street Journal' and the 'Star-Telegram' at my doorstep. I can't do without them.
Keep a journal, and learn how to see how you as an individuals sees information so you can learn your own sign language. Meditate and practice psychic self defense and surrounding yourself with prayer.
Before she married my father, my mother was a film reviewer for The Akron Beacon Journal - a small newspaper.
For many years I was engaged in journalism, writing articles and chronicles for the daily press without ever joining the staff of any newspaper.
Novel writing should never be confused with journalism. Unfortunately, in the case of Primary Colors, a fair number of journalists confused.
For me, a really radical position for journalism to take is to stop being cynical. Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.
