Never lose your sense of the superficial. — Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe Copy Share Image
I believe a journalist needs to be free to ask the questions he or she deems relevant, without constraints from others. — Trish Regan Copy Share Image
Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects. — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
No real journalist makes $5 million a year... Those in power fear and dislike real journalists. — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
I never actually went anywhere when I was a journalist. I was a critic, and I just sort of got stuff in… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
You journalists bulldoze life's mysteries, ignorant of what you're so ruthlessly turning up. — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
As long as a journalist shows fairness and honesty in his or her work, their private life shouldn't matter. — Anderson Cooper Copy Share Image
...I gave up on being a journalist - I thought having a point of view was more important than being objective. — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
A person whose financial requirements are modest and whose curiosity, skepticism and indifference to reputation are outsized is a person at risk… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
Back in George W. Bush's second term, when diplomatic realism began to overtake foolish bellicosity, the president developed one of his patented… — Joe Klein Copy Share Image
I think the key to being a journalist is getting your subject to feel comfortable enough to talk about stuff they want… — Glenn Danzig Copy Share Image
Now, practically all reviewers have academic aspirations. The people from the universities are used to a captive audience, but the literary journalist… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
Iraq has been successfully demonized as if everybody who lives there is Saddam Hussein. In the build-up to this attack on Iraq,… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
No journalist has ever been in my house and no photographs have ever been taken of where I live. I don't parade… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
My mom was truly an iconic figure, a great journalist and a pioneering woman who died at 54 of cancer without ever… — David Frum Copy Share Image
When you are a journalist, you are always looking for the next story. It might come from a phone call from a… — Fiona Barton Copy Share Image
There is something I like about talking to journalists that really goes beyond promotion because you aren't just talking to the journalist,… — Mick Jagger Copy Share Image
There's several ways to be a journalist. One way is to be combative and take the person to task and what you… — Cameron Crowe Copy Share Image
Everybody was in tears. You turned on the radio or the television, and it was nothing but Gainsbourg. With typical British music… — Sylvie Simmons Copy Share Image
...the prominent Egyptian government minister, university professor, and writer Taha Hussein...devoted himself to the study of pre-Islamic Arabian poetry and ended up… — Toby Lester Copy Share Image
How is it that, in the face of overwhelming scientific evidence, there are still some who would deny the dangers of climate… — Nicholas Stern Copy Share Image
A free press is one where it's okay to state the conclusion you're led to by the evidence. One reason I'm in… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
Let us, rather, gather facts, all the facts, regardless of aesthetic appeal or theoretical social worth, and spread those facts before us… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
We are hurtling back into a Soviet abyss, into an information vacuum that spells death from our own ignorance. All we have… — Anna Politkovskaya Copy Share Image