Journalist Quotes · Page 30

You do not conceive a novel as easily as you conceive a child, nor even half as easily as you create nonfiction…

— Zelda Popkin

Carelessness is not fatal to journalism, nor are cliches, for the eye rests lightly on them. But what is intended to be…

— Cyril Connolly

“To be successful as a journalist, you must be curious and have a yearning for learning facts.”

— Germany Kent

Interviewer: [What do you get up to] In real time? Brian Molko: I go on Placebo sites and have a terrible time…

— Brian Molko

I bought a tape recorder and some stuff and went to Europe for three months when I was 18. The puppeteering was…

— Frank Oz

There is too much ideological conformity in gender studies. The true-believers fashion the theories, write the textbooks and teach the students. When…

— Christina Hoff Sommers

Scepticism is as important for a good journalist as it is for a good scientist.

— Freeman Dyson

They [candidates] say, "I don't want to say anything controversial." And so nobody covers them. Then they blame the journalists, saying "Why…

— Roger Ailes

I've had journalists asking me, 'What do we call you - is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?' I said, 'Well…

— Aimee Mullins

As a young aspiring journalist, I felt I was put into a box.

— Elaine Welteroth

To me, that's the foundational fact of my identity is that I'm a journalist and so it's hard to imagine putting anything…

— Lydia Polgreen

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

— Maria Ressa

But unfortunately, I have to say, one out of every 100 interviews I do, I get a real journalist

— Glenn Danzig

I feel that a documentarian has an obligation to tell the truth as he or she interprets it. And what I mean…

— Penelope Spheeris

In examining the CIA's past and present use of the U.S. media, the Committee finds two reasons for concern. The first is…

— Frank Church

I think interviews should happen after a journalist sees a film. You have a lot to talk about then.

— Antara Mali

I worked very hard as a young journalist learning the trade and asking questions, understanding what a story is and being able…

— Jill Douglas

I consider myself to be a guerrilla journalist. Some would call me a provocateur, but I am a journalist who uses ambush…

— Laura Loomer

I arrived in the middle of a press conference - as boring a thing to sit through if you don't know the…

— P. J. O'Rourke

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

I think movies are expressions of our imagination; they are expressions of our conscious and of our subconscious. I think that movies…

— Olivier Assayas

I dont claim to be a journalist. I hold myself to higher standards of transparency and disclosure.

— Michael Arrington

Your regional newspaper, and I like to use this example, in your local museum buys a Picasso, that's news especially if they've…

— Terry Teachout

I wasn't imposing my presence on anyone, which is very important for a would- be journalist. I stayed back. Always let people…

— Elliott Erwitt

At certain times each year, we journalists do almost nothing except apply for the Pulitzers and several dozen other major prizes. During…

— Dave Barry