Journalist Quotes · Page 12

With the possible exception of God during the writing of the Bible, every writer in history has needed an editor. So do…

— Donald Davis

I'd probably still be a financial journalist now if it weren't for writing novels. Mmm. Fun! I'm much happier writing novels!

— Sophie Kinsella

Being a famous print journalist is like being the best-dressed woman on radio.

— Robin Williams

An erudite is someone who displays less than he knows; a journalist or consultant the opposite.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I give this book 5 Stars and highly recommend it to all fiction, nonfiction, and poetry writers, aspiring writers, bloggers or journalists.

— Sunny

I never intended to be a journalist. Frankly, I don't think I ever was a journalist. I backed into it.

— Laurence Shames

I have had no contact with the Chinese government. I only work with journalists.

— Edward Snowden

My life isn't much different than when I worked full time as a journalist.

— Linwood Barclay

We were there [ in the newsroom] through the elections [2008] so it was quite a frenzy going on. The other thing…

— Rachel McAdams

I have spent six years in prison, the last six years. Even if I was outside the prison, how much actual space…

— Akbar Ganji

There's some irony in playing a journalist after some of the stuff that has been written about me, but it's a great…

— James Nesbitt

The one problem with the Internet for journalists who like doing long form is that any story that's going to involve 16…

— Nancy Gibbs

If you're a journalist - and I think, on some level, I'm a journalist, and proud to be a journalist, or a…

— Errol Morris

Things happened there that I don't think are the finest hours for anybody, whether it was a journalist, the legal system or,…

— Rahm Emanuel

I think what we journalists too often do is we assume the status quo is unchangeable. I think all sorts of issues…

— Frank Bruni

It's only when journalists understand the role they play in this propaganda, it's only when they realize they can't be both independent,…

— John Pilger

When I first signed up for a Twitter account - I was to say it was in 2007, people are going to…

— Lydia Polgreen

The dominant and most deep-dyed trait of the journalist is his timorousness. Where the novelist fearlessly plunges into the water of self-exposure,…

— Janet Malcolm

For me, in terms of personal satisfaction, the mission's already accomplished. I already won. As soon as the journalists were able to…

— Edward Snowden

We have a game we play when we’re waiting for tables in restaurants, where you have to write the five things that…

— Nora Ephron

I've known Owen's father Ron [Suskind] for years, and this was based on his best-selling book ["Life, Animated"]. We worked together as…

— Roger Ross Williams

As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read, the corruption of the schools would not matter so much…

— George Bernard Shaw

“I think I was always interested in the larger world, even as a kid, and my experiences as a journalist only heightened…

— Masha Hamilton

The problem with being a journalist is you go places and you're working. You don't get to appreciate everything. But I got…

— Lester Holt

Taxi drivers all over the world, by the way, are under Newspaper Guild contract to give easy quotes to foreign correspondents.

— P. J. O'Rourke

I certainly don't think that it's the job of any journalist to make the presidency work.

— Jake Tapper

I think that Twitter and YT and blogs are keeping media more honest. Everyone can be a journalist now. Everyone is a…

— Shane Smith

I went to the Democratic Convention as a journalist, and returned a cold-blooded revolutionary.

— Hunter S. Thompson

I don't think I ever wanted to be a journalist - I was more interested in what comes from being a journalist.

— Benjamin Booker

It might sound glib, but in a sense, as an actor I'm a journalist and a psychologist recording life and truth.

— Bertie Carvel

Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.

— Russell Lynes

Populists hate journalists, they hate teachers, they hate lawyers, but they tend to like rich people. There's something deeply consistent.

— David Brooks

A lot of journalists give me a hard time about how I look, but I've never met a journalist I'd rather look…

— Robert Smith

It's Charles Barkley. He's a personality. I don't count him as a journalist.

— Michelle Beadle

It is impossible not to hear some of the criticism. However, no newspaper, nor journalist, is going to tell me who I…

— Thiago Silva

If you're curious, you'll probably be a good journalist because we follow our curiosity like cats.

— Diane Sawyer

Liberals have a quaint and touching faith that truth is on their side and an even quainter faith that journalists are on…

— P. J. O'Rourke

I wanted to be a journalist, I thought it was glamorous and that I'd meet beautiful women in the rain.

— Bill Nighy

In just one year in Bosnia, thirty of my colleagues died. There is a little Somme waiting for all innocent journalists.

— Robert Fisk

A burro is an ass. A burrow is a hole in the ground. As a journalist you are expected to know the…

— Bill Walsh