Oscar Wilde Quotes

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.

I think you can do a lot with fiction, and in some cases you can say even more in fiction than you can in straight-up documentary journalism.

It turned out I really didn't like journalism. I wanted to make up stories, not cover real events.

Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.

The challenge in fiction is to write a terrific story. The challenge in journalism is to communicate solid, objective information. The challenge in creative non-fiction is to do it both and to do it well.

I don't read fiction.

I'll take a certain concern of my own or a situation and try to frame it around a fictional story, but sometimes just straight-up autobiographical songs work well, and sometimes a story is better. I like stories. I like to hear them. I don't think there are enough of them in songs anymore.

I am a writer, which means I write stories, I write novels, and I would write poetry if I knew how to. I don't want to limit myself.

Literature, of course, is not a contest.

Fiction will always be my greatest love, with poetry close behind.

I don't read fiction at all.

For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn't poetry. And then I realized that the events that I covered in essays that became journalism were actually great because they inspired me, and they became my muse.

I'm a child of the literary bent. I don't want to see 140 characters. I want to see a story.

I guess, taking away all the theatrics or the costuming and the outer layers of what I do, I'm a writer... I write.

Sometimes I - I try not to read too many fiction or novels.

I can't speak for readers in general, but personally I like to read stories behind which there is some truth, something real and above all, something emotional. I don't like to read essays on literature; I don't like to read critical or rational or impersonal or cold disquisitions on subjects.

I'm always interested in storytelling and whatever form that comes in.

Writers like to write, and writing in different forms - short, long, bite-sized, done on the fly, done with painstaking attention - all interest me.

I like to read dramatic novels and I absolutely love magazines.

Fiction is my deepest love, but I love journalism, too. It keeps me thinking vigorously, and it reminds me that there is a world out there.

Those who have been writing literature have not been writing life.

If I feel like I haven't really tapped into the essence of the story when I do an assignment, I may revisit it on my own, and that's when I feel freer to add my imagination. But I think that if you feel imaginatively towards a subject, you really shouldn't do it in a journalistic context, because then you're just fabricating, and that's crazy.

I always wanted to use my newspaper background in a novel.

I don't have anything to prove as a writer anymore. I write about Panera Bread or Red Lobster or Satan or Richard Ramirez or whatever comes to mind. I just write.

I don't know any other columnists, and I don't know what they do. I work the single! And nobody does what I do, anyway.