Geraldine Brooks Quotes:
Ocupation: Journalist
Life: b. September 14, 1955
Birthday: September 14
I was a news reporter for 16 years, seven of them a foreign correspondent in the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. Perhaps the most useful equipment I acquired in that time is a lack of preciousness about the act of writing. A reporter must write. There must be a story. The 'mot juste' unarriving? Tell that to your desk.
source: "A Home in Fiction". Boyer Lectures 2011: "The Idea of Home", Lecture 4, www.abc.net.au. December 11, 2011. 
topic: Writing, Years, Middle East, Balkans, East Africa
