I have never, in 50 years, ever missed a deadline [as a journalist]. — Khushwant Singh Copy Share Image
As a journalist, my job is to be dispassionate. Suddenly to be the centre of a story and to be crying, it… — Natasha Kaplinsky Copy Share Image
As a professional journalist, I am always looking for new ways to get paid for being motionless. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Once journalists have been rifling through your dustbins, you do try and keep them at arms' length. — Craig Charles Copy Share Image
When you are a journalist, you have a big responsibility towards your audience and it is important to respect that responsibility. — Neeraj Kabi Copy Share Image
I have tried to remain a working, cutting-edge journalist and I don't do it the way everybody else does it. And I… — Dan Rather Copy Share Image
I didn't intend to be a novelist. I didn't intend to be anything. I thought I'd be a journalist. — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
I didn't look at it as a transition so much, because I never intended to have a career as a journalist, writing… — Curtis Hanson Copy Share Image
It had never occurred to us that the Kremlin's new anti-booze campaign would apply to journalists. Now, that's a human-rights violation. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I worked very hard as a young journalist learning the trade and asking questions, understanding what a story is and being able… — Jill Douglas Copy Share Image
I hesitate to say what the functions of the modern journalist may be, but I imagine that they do not exclude the… — George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston Copy Share Image
During my past career as a journalist, I relished writing obits and equally dreaded phoning relatives for the necessary facts. But to… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
I used to go into rooms of older executives and try to pitch talk show ideas and when I was writing as… — Lily Collins Copy Share Image
Vladimir Putin is a human rights abuser, responsible for deaths in Ukraine, Georgia and Syria, not to mention curious murders of his… — Jake Tapper Copy Share Image
Carelessness is not fatal to journalism, nor are cliches, for the eye rests lightly on them. But what is intended to be… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
So much of our cultural representation of what an investigative journalist looks like, in movies and pop culture, is about this really… — Sarah Stillman Copy Share Image
A good businessman must have nose for business the same way a journalist has nose for news. In places where people see… — Orji Uzor Kalu Copy Share Image
More than illness or death, the American journalist fears standing alone against the whim of his owners or the prejudices of his… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
One of the things that always drives any practitioner of journalism crazy is you'll run it people who say why doesn't the… — David Frum Copy Share Image
Working as a journalist is exactly like being the wallflower at an orgy. I always seem to find myself at a perfectly… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
I think we're all actors. There's this friend of mine who's a great drummer, and he said, "I never thought I'd be… — Matt Dillon Copy Share Image
There is only one way of surviving all the early heartbreaks in this business. You must have a sense of humor. And… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
Donald Trump creates word salads. And that is awful to language, because we try to parse out what he's saying and try… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
Because I didn't see war in Iraq through the partisan lens that seems to dominate a lot of the perspective today with… — Jeremy Scahill Copy Share Image
I well recall my horror when I heard for the first time, of a journalist who had laid in a pair of… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image