"One of the first things I did was interview the President of the United States. Some people work their whole lives and can't interview someone of that stature."

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It's good for a writer to come from journalism because it gives you the tools. A journalist knows that he or she can lose the reader in six lines, so try to keep the attention of the reader. Also, you learn to research, and to conduct an interview - to extract from the person whatever you need from that person.

— Isabel Allende