John Branch Quotes

That's a paradox I've noticed, too: The news business held little romance for me, yet writing about it somehow stirred my affections.

I always wanted to be a serious journalist.

I've never wanted to do anything but be a newspaperman ever since I was 13.

I knew I was going to be a journalist when I was eight years old and I saw the printing presses rolling at the Sydney newspaper where my dad worked as a proofreader.

I became a journalist because one didn't have to specialise.

Well, I don't know how astute I am, but I did want to be a journalist when I was growing up.

I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it.

I wanted to be a journalist. The other thing I wanted to be was a spy.

Being a journalist seemed the ideal way of both having a job and experiencing the world, especially for anyone with a sense of adventure.

A career in journalism suddenly lost its appeal.

Advertising was only meant to be a very small part of my life. I had intended that I would work extensively in journalism for about five or six years and then I'd become a writer.

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.

I expected to go into journalism or law.

I think there's always satisfaction that comes from digging in and telling a story and being on the front line and writing about it. I think there's a venue available if you look. Even print journalism is in good shape in areas.

I wanted to be a journalist, I thought it was glamorous and that I'd meet beautiful women in the rain.

I liked journalism and thought it was important, certainly more important than fiction. I'd probably still be doing it if I hadn't been elbowed out.

I had a great editor, Rebecca Corbett, from the time I was a city reporter right through to the years I worked on the 'Sun's' enterprise reporting team.

My favorite thing is still journalism. I'm almost 50. This has been my life ever since I was in college.

I was thinking of applying to the 'Guardian' for a job after university. Yeah, I wanted to be one of the people who writes stories in G2.

I had discovered journalism to be my life's ambition.

I've always thought of myself as a journalist; that was what I did.

I was brought up in a publishing home, a newspaper man's home, and was excited by that, I suppose. I saw that life at close range and, after the age of ten or twelve, never really considered any other.

Growing up, I was going to school for broadcast journalism. I wanted to be Oprah.

I wanted to be a journalist so the character of a TV news person in 'Run Baby Run' was really interesting.

I never wanted to be a reporter. I took a job at the New York Post as a clerk because I couldn't get a job in magazines, which is what I really wanted to do.