Geraldine Brooks Quotes

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.

I studied journalism, though I never really became a scribe.

I'm a journalist - I'm not Robert Caro. I have a day job, and a pretty consuming one - a joyfully consuming one.

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

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

I think of myself as a journalist first and foremost.

I'm a journalist. I've been a journalist ever since I was 18.

I'm in the reporting part of journalism.

I had - all my life, everybody who knew me thought that I would probably grow up to be a reporter, a newspaper reporter because we didn't have much television in those days.

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

I grew up with 'The Denver Post' and the 'Golden Transcript.' There was never a moment that I thought I'd work at the 'New York Times.' My goal, starting out, was just to see if I could be a journalist.

I think of myself as a journalist and a storyteller.

I used to be a journalist.

I'd been involved in journalism for a long time - my dad's a journalist, he's written many books, and when I was twelve years old I wrote reports on local football matches for the newspapers.

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

I wanted to be a journalist for a long time.

My dad was a journalist. He was in Rwanda right after the genocide. In Berlin when the wall came down. He was always disappearing and coming back with amazing stories. So telling stories for a living made sense to me.

I wanted no other job than to work in newspapers. I was fascinated by the process of collecting information, talking to people and having the story appear in a paper that would be delivered in your letterbox.

No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist.

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

Actually, I graduated from university as a journalist.

My father was a newspaper editor, so I was surrounded by journalists my entire life. I think the fact that he was so well known may be why I chose to go into magazines and move to the States at a young age.

Find out what happened and put it in the paper

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

I'm a writer. I've been a journalist for my whole adult life.