Definition

Journalism: The activity of investigating and research information of your or someone's interest in order to make a report about it.

Literature: Any type of writing that emerges from an idea or experience.

Capote

 Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.

Truman Capote

In the writing aspect I understand about this quotes is that writing takes away the demons you have inside and shoot them. In the readers perspective it shows that by reading you get wiser.