Journalist Quotes · Page 20

I write as well as I can. I'm a journalist at heart, so it's the story that matters.

— Robert Harris

Ive never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography.

— James Frey

My belief is that 'recluse' is a code word generated by journalists ... meaning, 'doesn't like to talk to reporters'.

— Thomas Pynchon

I have to remind my dad, 'Journalists - no matter how many cigars they smoke with you - are not your friends,…

— Cameron Diaz

I don't think journalists in World War II were objective about the Nazis, and I don't think they should have been.

— Sebastian Junger

Most journalists now believe that a person's privacy zone gets smaller and smaller as the person becomes more and more powerful.

— Roger Mudd

Letting journalism be from the perspective of the journalist. It's usually a no-no, and journalists are encouraged to be completely objective.

— Marisa Tomei

“Berita mudah sekali punah, tapi feature bisa disimpan berhari, berminggu, atau berbulan-bulan.”

— Goenawan Mohamad

He has been named as the heir apparent of the great Argentine hero, Diego Maradona, by journalists, players, and Maradona himself, alike.…

— Franz Beckenbauer

War affected my family a lot, and I was quite curious about it. I first went off to war in the early…

— Sebastian Junger

Open source is a beautiful way of collaborating; but what's happening on the free Internet is more akin to the 'crowdsourcing' of…

— Douglas Rushkoff

I don't know if I ever believed in the infallibility of a journalist's objectivity, but I definitely stopped flirting with the notion…

— Dana Loesch

Accompanied by an Australian photographer named Nigel Brennan, I'd gone to Somalia to work as a freelance journalist, on a trip that…

— Amanda Lindhout

As a journalist, I think the only question that you ask yourself - once you've determined that the material is authentic -…

— Glenn Greenwald

A journalist is supposed to present an unbiased portrait of an event, a view devoid of intimate emotions. This is impossible, of…

— Alexandra Kerry

But being an American woman married to an Arab guy - and a Muslim to boot! - put me in a different…

— Annia Ciezadlo

When I wrote my first book, 'The Tennis Party', my overriding concern was that I didn't write the autobiographical first novel. I…

— Sophie Kinsella

One even tries to figure out why Donald Trump is so admiring of a leader who has cracked down on journalists and…

— Philip Gordon

Compared with other Americans, journalists are more likely to live in upscale neighborhoods, have maids, own Mercedes and trade stocks, and less…

— John Leo

I never intended to have a career as a journalist, writing about people who make movies. I did it as something that…

— Curtis Hanson

Making information free is survivable so long as only limited numbers of people are disenfranchised. As much as it pains me to…

— Jaron Lanier

Here in the United States, we speak with reverence of authentic experience. We write poems about our daddies taking us fishing and…

— Charles Simic

I think America is a really interesting place. In New Zealand, we don't sue each other really commonly. There's a really specific…

— David Farrier

A lot of college graduates approach me about becoming screenwriters. I tell them, 'Do not become a screenwriter, become a journalist,' because…

— Nora Ephron

If I do an interview with [Holocaust survivor] Elie Wiesel, am I required as a journalist to find a Holocaust denier?

— Scott Pelley

Clearly independent journalists - domestic journalists - run a high risk if they dare to take on serious investigative work.

— David Remnick

To be completely honest, I never thought I could become a model growing up. I actually wanted to be an entertainment journalist.

— Winnie Harlow

There's a lot of people who feel there's a tabloid journalist who had it coming.

— Ralph Fiennes

I like it when journalists are nice to me, and it's happening more and more.

— Anonymous

Journalists should have been the first to tell people what Obamacare would mean to them. They are now the last to figure…

— Rush Limbaugh

He types his labored column - weary drudge! Senile fudge and solemn: spare, editor, to condemn these dry leaves of his autumn.

— Robertson Davies

As the saying goes: "If you're not part of the solution, you're a newspaper columnist."

— Dave Barry

Since I'm not a journalist, I talk about issues that encourage an interchange of ideas through conversation while also being entertaining.

— Thalia

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

— Giles Coren

What I love most about Norway is you ladies. Back home I'm used to fat and hairy women journalists.

— Diego Maradona

I've always thought that travelling every day as a journalist on the Tour's got to be harder than actually racing.

— Greg LeMond

I cannot do a better job than a journalist. I cannot do a better job than politicians - what I can do…

— Emmanuel Adebayor

Our language has become a tired and inefficient thing in the hands of journalists and writers who have nothing to say.

— Colin Wilson

Whether you're a newspaper journalist, a lawyer, a doctor. You have to organize your thoughts.

— Frederick Wiseman

When I was a young reporter, the great vice among journalists was whiskey. Today, it's cynicism.

— Paul Simon