Journalist Quotes · Page 3

a writer must always tell the truth (unless he's a journalist)

— Gore Vidal

As a journalist, you're always worried, 'Did I get the full story?'

— Mitchell Zuckoff

I thought I wanted to be a journalist or a novelist.

— Lena Dunham

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is.

— Warren Buffett

I don't kick dressing room doors, or the cat - or even journalists

— Arsene Wenger

Never lose your sense of the superficial.

— Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe

“I'm not a journalist any longer,” I told him. “I'm a chef!”

— Jacques Pauw

I'm not rational enough to be a good journalist.

— Jim Harrison

Journalists cover words and delude themselves into thinking they have committed journalism.

— Hedrick Smith

My father was a motorsports journalist and a motorbike fan. He gave me my motocross bike.

— Jacky Ickx

I'm a reasonably accomplished journalist. I've worked as an investigative journalist, I've done crime beat stuff.

— Brianna Wu

It is no good saying we [journalists] must report only what is true because what is true cannot always be proven.

— John Humphrys

Were all bloggers and punks and rebels with cameras. There is absolutely no respect for career journalists anymore.

— Richard Engel

“As a journalist and observer of mankind, I have more questions than answers. Sort of like an inquisitive child, still eager to…

— BubbaHarold

I believe that I've been asked all possible questions. I, myself, if I were a journalist, would not know what to ask…

— Jose Saramago

[On journalists:] We are a noisy, imperfect lot, struggling to scribble what has been called the first draft of history.

— Maureen Dowd

It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no true patriot ever…

— George Orwell

Those of us forced to read the London papers sometimes speculate about which is greater: the average British hack's sloth, mendacity, ignorance,…

— Larry King

Socially, a journalist ranks somewhere between the madam of a whorehouse and a bartender. but spiritually he ranks with Galileo, for he…

— Ben Hecht

If a journalist comes to you with a great story, one of the first questions you ask is how did you get…

— Andrew Neil

Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they're attached to dollar signs - unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and felony criminal defendants who tend…

— Hunter S. Thompson

All murder is a tragedy but when journalists are killed, public debate loses a voice that can provide an important contribution to…

— Irina Bokova

As any journalist will tell you, there are few professional situations as vexing as when a friend becomes involved in a major…

— Graydon Carter

I try to write in the first person - the first person not of a journalist but of a carnivore, an eater,…

— Michael Pollan

Well, my wife doesn't engage. I mean if you want to look back, really dig down and be a journalist, look at…

— Eddie Cibrian

If, for instance, they have heard something from the postman, they attribute it to a semi-official statement; if they have fallen into…

— Evelyn Waugh

A lot of people involved with celebrity journalism have interesting ideas about the people they want to write about going into the…

— Chuck Klosterman

While I love to read contemporary fiction, I'm not drawn to writing it. Perhaps it's because the former journalist in me is…

— Geraldine Brooks

When you talk to women who were working as print journalists or in broadcasting in the '50s, and then you talk to…

— Romola Garai

Every day, there'd be somebody interviewing me as a "lesbian living in Russia." It got to the point where I would joke…

— Masha Gessen

There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us…

— Oscar Wilde

We must express the view, based on our empirical observations, that a substantial number of journalists are ignorant, lazy, opinionated, and intellectually…

— Conrad Black

I became a journalist because one didn't have to specialise.

— Christopher Hitchens

I've been a financial journalist for 30 years.

— Peter Brimelow

I've basically worked as a journalist and a writer.

— Laura Moser

My father was a journalist. He used to write for 'Blitz' tabloid.

— Jackie Shroff

No news is good news. No journalists is even better.

— Nicolas Bentley

I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.

— H. G. Wells

Working as a journalist is exactly like being a wallflower at an orgy.

— Nora Ephron

Journalists seem mostly interested in what brand of shoes I wear.

— Rem Koolhaas