A news sense is really a sense of what is important, what is vital, what has color and life - what people are interested in. That's journalism.
What no wife of a writer can ever understand...is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window.
Men and women who are lonely create. Those who are gregarious rarely do... Any poet would rather bed with a girl than write a poem about her. All art is the result of frustration. Art is energy deflected from its normal course in action.