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

Every life deserves a certain amount of dignity, no matter how poor or damaged the shell that carries it.

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

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.

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

It is a common condition of being poor...you are always afraid that the good things in your life are temporary, that someone can take them away, because you have no power beyond your own brute strength to stop them.

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