Journalist Quotes · Page 14

I started off as a journalist when I was young and I did not get paid unless I wrote three stories a…

— Ryan Murphy

Journalists don't need a get-out-of-jail-free card, ... Instead we should be given more access to information.

— Chris Powell

The life of a journalist is poor, nasty, brutish, and short. So is his style

— Stella Gibbons

Seriously. I'm not playing to prove anything to journalists. I'm playing for myself, for my fans,to make people happy.

— Roger Federer

The idea that women journalists bring a different taste in stories or sensibility isnt true.

— Jill Abramson

I guess because I'm a washed-up journalist, I always do a lot of research.

— Mary Kay Andrews

Journalists are too poorly paid in this country to know anything that is fit for publication.

— George Bernard Shaw

As a journalist, you don't tend to interview people with a view to becoming their friend. You can't expect that. It's not…

— Sheila Heti

I am a journalist and, under the modern journalist's code of Olympian objectivity (and total purity of motive), I am absolved of…

— P. J. O'Rourke

I'm sort of planting Post-It notes all over my psyche. Do not skateboard wasted. Do not buy $10,000 rugs. Be careful what…

— Ryan Adams

I regret trusting The Guardian. I didn't want to do an interview, but the journalist was persistent. [The writer] was masked as…

— Lana Del Rey

It's important to stay a human, to be a journalist, to be a human covering the stories and trying as best as…

— Brooke Baldwin

The fact that I have always been deeply invested in politics, and African politics in particular, inevitably played a role in my…

— Dinaw Mengestu

And it is a very important thing to be and do, if not the most important 'cause how you interpret a story…

— Angelina Jolie

I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness. They have all made what Dante calls the Great Refusal.…

— William Butler Yeats

Too few journalists become screenwriters. I say to all the would-be screenwriters: Become journalists. And I’ll say to working journalists: Do not…

— Nora Ephron

A hacker is someone who enjoys playful cleverness—not necessarily with computers. The programmers in the old MIT free software community of the…

— Richard Stallman

Recently a young journalist came to interview me about what I was doing the day war broke out. During the course of…

— Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire

If publishers and editors exert themselves to keep certain topics out of print, it is not because they are frightened of prosecution…

— George Orwell

I am a writer, a professional journalist with serious credentials in Crime, Craziness, and Politics. I have mingled with dangerous criminals and…

— Hunter S. Thompson

I have always been very open and honest about this part of my life with my friends, my family, and my colleagues.…

— Anderson Cooper

The problem of journalism is simple. Journalists are rarely in a position to establish the truth of an issue themselves, since they…

— Edward Jay Epstein

A journalist gathers information for a media outlet that disseminates the information through a broadly defined 'medium' - including newspaper, nonfiction book,…

— Dick Durbin

As a result of the Stratfor hack, some of the dangers of the unregulated private intelligence industry are now known. It has…

— Jeremy Hammond

A journalist is stimulated by a deadline. He writes worse when he has time

— Karl Kraus

That's always been my test for what makes a story: is this something journalists would gossip with each other about?

— Nick Denton

I started out as a journalist for about 8 or 9 years, and then I started working in film and television in 2014.

— Cord Jefferson

No journalist knows the ins and outs of the Allman Brothers Band better than Alan Paul.

— Warren Haynes

“You think I’m finished, so you’re leaving me to be crucified by every piece of shit journalist in the fucking country.”

— Clive Barker

The media and their journalists are merely megaphones for stupidity, the verb par excellence.

— William C. Brown

You know journalists. You know the media. They are going to hang on to anything negative they possibly can.

— Hope Solo

Journalists say my music is "blue wave," or "dreamy," or "jangly-slacker jewel," and none of it really makes sense to me.

— Mac DeMarco

Journalist: A person with nothing on his mind and the power to express it.

— Russell Baker

The training of a journalist, of working with words for thousands of hours, is extraordinarily useful for a fiction writer.

— Tom Rachman

I'm not a critic, I'm a journalist. I'm doing my job holding the government to account.

— Maria Ressa

I worked for a brief spell as a journalist, but soon I discovered that I didn't want to be a journalist -…

— Robert Darnton

It's probably the journalist in me, but I'm naturally suspicious about consensus and always feel an impulse to confront it.

— Andrew Neil

A good journalist is modest; his only job is simple: to decide what counts as news.

— Michael Ignatieff

As for being an objective journalist? That's easy. I want what everyone else wants: the truth.

— Brooke Baldwin

Being a journalist, Hacker had no particular talent for reporting facts.

— Jonathan Lynn