I write the shopping column. I think I've proven my…

There is only one thing that you write for yourself, and that is a shopping list.

— Umberto Eco

It's easy to write a good column if you've got good information. It's hard if you have to depend on style alone. I suppose…

— Allan Sloan

He did a very good impression of a stone column.

— Shannon Hale

I measure myself by the win column.

— Jameis Winston

I wrote the music column in my high school newspaper.

— Eddie Trunk

A century ago, scientists believed there was only one obvious stomping ground for alien biology in our solar system: Mars. Because it was reminiscent…

— Seth Shostak

I really like the Observer. I think I'd love to have a column with a broad reach that would enable me to do some…

— Toby Young

Those inevitable dreams where you can't get your column in, you know, and at first they were the Xerox telecopy, and then they were…

— Ellen Goodman

You can get rid of the column. It's a little like staying at a hotel; you get used to the shape of the room,…

— Anna Quindlen

“My novel is about the history of the world, told from the point of view of a column of stone.”

— Kit Reed

I'm pretty adept with computers and Photoshop for my blog, and I found my style with a conversational voice and an image-ready column.

— Robert Mankoff

When Time got rid of my column, I thought it was all over. It was really sad. And then, I just started pushing it…

— Joel Stein

“Goo-goo goo-goo goo-goo goo Goo-goo goo-goo goo-goo Googly, googly, googly goo: That’s how we fill a column.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“When the Washington Post telephoned me at home on Valentine's Day 1989 to ask my opinion about the Ayatollah Khomeini's fatwah , I felt…

— Christopher Hitchens

What a fantastic honour to be given the opportunity to write a column in the first ever 'Sunday Sun.'

— John Sentamu