Journalist Quotes · Page 17

“You think I’m finished, so you’re leaving me to be crucified by every piece of shit journalist in the fucking country.”

— Clive Barker

You know journalists. You know the media. They are going to hang on to anything negative they possibly can.

— Hope Solo

The media and their journalists are merely megaphones for stupidity, the verb par excellence.

— William C. Brown

A journalist is stimulated by a deadline. He writes worse when he has time

— Karl Kraus

That's always been my test for what makes a story: is this something journalists would gossip with each other about?

— Nick Denton

As a journalist, you don't tend to interview people with a view to becoming their friend. You can't expect that. It's not…

— Sheila Heti

Journalists are too poorly paid in this country to know anything that is fit for publication.

— George Bernard Shaw

I guess because I'm a washed-up journalist, I always do a lot of research.

— Mary Kay Andrews

If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are…

— Norman Mailer

In my very early days as a journalist, as a cub reporter on a local newspaper, I used to cover the district…

— Kevin Barry

One colleague who's been in the industry longer than I had been gave me a valuable piece of advice. "Stay close to…

— Hark-Joon Lee

Today, former President Bill Clinton met with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il and convinced him to release two American journalists that have…

— Conan O'Brien

I think people are smart enough to sort it out. They know when they're watching one of these food fight shows where…

— Bob Woodward

Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline:…

— Karl Kraus

Journalists have always written that my mum said that I punched a hole through my cot when I was three years old.…

— Frank Bruno

I was a very bad journalist. Awful. I would just invent everything. If I did an interview, I had a preconception of…

— Isabel Allende

Jason Rezaian is coming home. A courageous journalist for The Washington Post who wrote about the daily lives and hopes of the…

— Barack Obama

I was charging forward too hard, into too many war zones, working too long, drinking too heavily, pushing forward, pushing forward. And…

— Brad Willis

Coverage of Iraq has plummeted, because people in power no longer want to talk about it suddenly. Journalists should be over there…

— Robert Waterman McChesney

I mean, Britain is a country of successful Muslim businesspeople, teachers and educators, journalists. So, we have to say very strongly that…

— David Miliband

For me, in terms of personal satisfaction, the mission's already accomplished. I already won. As soon as the journalists were able to…

— Edward Snowden

The dominant and most deep-dyed trait of the journalist is his timorousness. Where the novelist fearlessly plunges into the water of self-exposure,…

— Janet Malcolm

When I first signed up for a Twitter account - I was to say it was in 2007, people are going to…

— Lydia Polgreen

I've known Owen's father Ron [Suskind] for years, and this was based on his best-selling book ["Life, Animated"]. We worked together as…

— Roger Ross Williams

One of the few benefits of being a journalist is that you're not in the Army.

— P. J. O'Rourke

I was a journalist and wrote about filmmakers, but I didn't review movies per se.

— Curtis Hanson

Journalists told me that a talk show wouldn't work. Some told me I was going to get canceled before my first season…

— Tyra Banks

“A journalist's work depends on a willingness to ask questions of people who are better informed and more powerful than you.”

— Elizabeth Pisani

Being a journalist, Hacker had no particular talent for reporting facts.

— Jonathan Lynn

I feel like I'm in a horror film. Everywhere I turn, there's a journalist.

— Ksenia Sobchak

As for being an objective journalist? That's easy. I want what everyone else wants: the truth.

— Brooke Baldwin

A good journalist is modest; his only job is simple: to decide what counts as news.

— Michael Ignatieff

It's probably the journalist in me, but I'm naturally suspicious about consensus and always feel an impulse to confront it.

— Andrew Neil

I'm not a journalist. I'm a pundit. I'm a commentator, I'm somebody with an opinion.

— Karl Rove

I lasted seven years as a journalist, and I've been doing comedy for twenty years.

— Lisa Lampanelli

What I love - and I'm a journalist - and what I love is finding hidden patterns; I love being a data…

— David McCandless

I am an ordinary citizen and quite insignificant, but I am also a vigilant and committed journalist.

— Ravish Kumar

Would that it were so! ... That the American military were targeting journalists.

— Ann Coulter

I feel I'm functioning at some level as a journalist because even though I write fiction, I'm trying to get the world…

— Michael Connelly

Most writers I know go for word counts, and I used to be a journalist, so I guess that's ingrained.

— Aminatta Forna