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I thought I wanted to be a journalist or a novelist.

Lena Dunham

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Lena Dunham
American - Actress
Born: May 13, 1986

My dad was very successful as a journalist, so I didn't want to be one. I wanted to be a novelist.

Giles Coren

The dominant and most deep-dyed trait of the journalist is his timorousness. Where the novelist fearlessly plunges into the water of self-exposure, the journalist stands trembling on the shore in his beach robe. The journalist confines himself to the clean, gentlemanly work of exposing the grieves and shames of others.

Janet Malcolm

I didn't intend to be a novelist. I didn't intend to be anything. I thought I'd be a journalist.

Alex Garland

Janet Malcolm

The one thing that shaped my life was when I was 15 or 16: I knew I wanted to be a journalist. And not just a journalist, but a journalist in the Middle East, and to go back to the Arab world and try to understand what it meant to be Lebanese.

Anthony Shadid

The professions of novelist and journalist are very separate. As a novelist, you are ultimately working for yourself. Yes, you need the approval of a publisher and an audience, but what is valued in fiction writing - style, individual voice, insight - is scorned by the editor who is combing through your newspaper article.

Jon Weisman

I think we're all actors. There's this friend of mine who's a great drummer, and he said, "I never thought I'd be a drummer, but I got really good at it. I always feel like I'm an actor playing the drums." His real calling was that he was going to be a magician. That's what he felt like he wanted to do. If you decide to act like a journalist, you'll probably be a better journalist than just being a journalist. What you're doing is, you're taking the executive role and stepping outside yourself so that you're able to make more objective decisions.

Matt Dillon

Growing up, I wanted to be a journalist. I was in love with Lisa Ling, who's a broadcast journalist and who travels the world. I used to read all of her articles and watch her when she'd go to China or South Africa or Australia. I thought that was the coolest job because she got to travel and tell people's stories.

Anna Diop

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

Bill Nighy

I couldn't have been the novelist I was without being the journalist I was.

Pete Hamill

I dont think I ever wanted to be a journalist - I was more interested in what comes from being a journalist.

Benjamin Booker

I don't think I ever wanted to be a journalist - I was more interested in what comes from being a journalist.

Benjamin Booker

I wanted to be a lawyer. Then a journalist. Actually, I graduated from university as a journalist.

Hugh Jackman

I worked for a brief spell as a journalist, but soon I discovered that I didn't want to be a journalist - I wanted to be a historian.

Robert Darnton

I wanted to be a novelist from a very early age - 11 or 12 - but I don't think I ever thought I would write historical fiction. I never thought I might write academic history because I simply wasn't good enough!

Pat Barker

I stopped being an engaged journalist and became a disengaged novelist.

Jim Crace

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