Most national correspondents will tell you they rely on stringers and researchers and interns and clerks and news assistants.

I don't think there's a difference between writing for a newspaper or magazine and doing a chapter in a book.

The best writers who have put pen to paper have often had a journalism background.

And Sandy Martindale ... dated Elvis before the rhinestone jumpsuits and the drugs, when he was sharp and cool and jagged, like porcelain that has been hurled against a wall.

People who think there is something pedestrian about journalism are just ignorant.

I believe that if we are going to write about life and death, we should not do it from the cheap seats.

There are these boutique writers out there who think if they are not writing their novels sitting at a bistro with their laptops, then they're not real writers. That's ridiculous.