The reporter is the daily prisoner of clocked facts. On…

You're under pressure when you produce facts. You're working with facts in journalism, but you're under all kinds of formal constraints; there are expectations.

— Denis Johnson

A reporter meets interesting people. If he endures, he will get to know princes and presidents, popes and paupers, prostitutes and panderers. And always,…

— Jim Bishop

I think as an investigative reporter I had tough standards, but I don't think of myself as a tough person.

— Jill Abramson

I am a former newspaper reporter turned church secretary turned vampire novelist. I wrote my first complete novel, 'Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs,' at…

— Molly Harper

I never wanted to be a reporter. I took a job at the New York Post as a clerk because I couldn't get a…

— Maggie Haberman

I was always the sideline reporter or something similar to that - which is essentially, but this isn't always true, the 'woman's job.'

— Samantha Ponder

“The thrill of working in this building, with its iconic globe on top, would never fade.”

— Gwenda Bond

No reporter of my generation, whatever his genius, ever really rated spats and a walking stick until he had covered both a lynching and…

— H. L. Mencken

I worked in three local news markets and in every single one of them, they said: 'You're a lousy anchor. We would love to…

— Elizabeth Vargas

Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter - which is true - except for the pay!

— Jack Germond

“Read it to me.” “Seriously?” he said quietly. “You want me to read you poetry? Like saving your life ten times wasn’t enough?”

— Brynn Kelly

I am very, very old-fashioned and clumsy. I use those long reporter notebooks. This is what a troglodyte I am. The night before I…

— David Quammen

I decided very early that I was going to be a reporter, that I would not cheer for the team. I don't denigrate people…

— Ernie Harwell

It's astonishing what you learn and feel and see along the way. That's why a reporter's job, as you know, is such a joy.

— Mike Wallace

Having small children and being an investigative reporter would seem like a difficult mix, but it worked well for me. I was often working…

— Jill Abramson