Reporter Quotes · Page 4

I never knew what a reporter looked like.

— Dwayne Andreas

Normally when one reporter talks to you at a tournament it's no big deal.

— Bubba Watson

Listen, I'm not a politician. I'm not a news reporter. I make music, and I act.

— Kat Graham

I don't think I'll ever be a real boat reporter. My Rolex isn't big enough.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Being a reporter took me out of myself and that shaped me as a writer.

— Tom Barbash

I was in the back of the book [in the The Reporter] doing music.

— Nat Hentoff

I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter.

— Kate Adie

As a cub reporter, I devoured books about journalism.

— Lionel Barber

REPORTER, n. A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.

— Ambrose Bierce

I'm not a reporter, so I get to say whatever - and then I'll get called into the office.

— Michelle Beadle

The reporter is the daily prisoner of clocked facts. On all working days, he is expected to do his best in one…

— Jim Bishop

...when a reporter is quoting Sid Blumenthal on president Bush, you know he's scraping the barrel.

— Andrew Sullivan

If someone says you're a reporter and doesn't want you to anchor then you wonder why you worked so hard at it.

— Gayle Gardner

Memoir is a weird genre for a reporter. You end up investigating your own memories, reporting out your past.

— William Finnegan

When you're a crime reporter, you see the nub of what life's about, and you don't have much patience for the falsity…

— Heather Brooke

[ I'm] humorist, I guess. Or really more of a reporter. A reporter who reports on funny things.

— P. J. O'Rourke

I have long argued that no one should be allowed to write opinion without spending years as a reporter - nothing like…

— Molly Ivins

A reporter from 'The Times' wanted to arm-wrestle, and as I recall, he kept challenging me. So we went at it, and…

— Charles Portis

The news media in general are liberal. If you want to be a reporter, you are going to see poverty and misery,…

— Barbara Walters

Once, I used to have the local reporter on the team bus and I'd tell him everything, so when he wrote about…

— Neil Warnock

I'm still an old-school reporter at heart. Writing fiction satisfies my journalistic need to hear and relay the testimony of everyday people…

— Karen Traviss

Even before Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton threw their exploratory committees into the ring, every reporter seemed to be asking, 'Which candidate…

— Gloria Steinem

In fact, I spent 25 years as a reporter, swearing I would never become an editor. Sitting at a desk, watching other…

— Bill Keller

Inventing sources is not a crime in and of itself, although it certainly violates every code of journalistic ethics known to man.…

— Brendan I. Koerner

The first week I was in Iraq, I said, "This is what I want to do. I want to be a reporter…

— Jeremy Scahill

For me, the biggest thing I've learned is how to be myself and the fact that viewers actually want to feel like…

— Kasie Hunt

Being a reporter is one of the noblest things you can do in life. Letting the people know. It's really a holy…

— Celestine Sibley

“A prize-winning science reporter, Simons had become the number-two editor at the Post a year before. An intent, sensitive man with a…

— Carl Bernstein

“A veteran reporter knows there is a disconnect between how an event in a region is experienced and the way it is…

— Kyo Maclear

“Sherman Reilly Duffy of the pre-World War I CHICAGO DAILY JOURNAL once told a cub reporter, 'Socially, a journalist fits in somewhere…

— Jeff Rice

I'm not a reporter but the 'New Yorker' treats everyone like a reporter.

— David Sedaris

I covered Congress, and everyone always wanted me to be a political reporter.

— David Grann

When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, he’s nobody’s friend.

— Theodore White

“I’m quite capable of taking responsibility for my own death.”

— Brynn Kelly

A reporter is no better than his source of information.

— William O. Douglas

I'm an inexperienced reporter, and I'm still learning.

— Nick McDonell

I'm a humorist. I'm not a reporter, I never pretended to be a reporter.

— David Sedaris

I did not read newspapers until I became a reporter.

— Janine di Giovanni

A reporter is never put off by somebody not wanting to be interviewed.

— Nat Hentoff

Is it against the law to kill a reporter?

— Bobby Fischer