Journalist Quotes · Page 15

As long as a journalist shows fairness and honesty in his or her work, their private life shouldn't matter.

— Anderson Cooper

A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand.

— Karl Kraus

I'm somewhere between a gumshoe and a journalist. A writer, not a symbol.

— Bill Callahan

If my name had not been cleared, it would have been difficult, perhaps impossible, to continue as a journalist.

— Asne Seierstad

The journalist cannot create his subjects any more than the analyst can create his patients.

— Janet Malcolm

“VW used to mean FAHRVERGNUGEN and now it's FARFROMUNION! Birgit Von Schondorf”

— Birgit Von Schondorf

For somebody who is a journalist, I can be awfully unobservant sometimes.

— Patricia Marx

Of necessity, we made the discovery that it is easier to turn poets into business journalists than to turn bookkeepers into writers.

— Henry R. Luce

Women? I love women. Life would have been virtually zero without them. Journalism? I really feel like I am a journalist... And…

— Ted Turner

This ball was so crowded that it took me - a trained professional journalist with vast experience in this area - forty…

— Dave Barry

At the G-20 summit, the White House accidentally listed a phone-sex line for journalists seeking an on-record briefing call for Secretary of…

— Jay Leno

The entitlement mentality so carefully cultivated by liberal academics, politicians, clergymen, and journalists continues to corrode the self-sufficiency that once defined the…

— Mona Charen

As a graphic artist, my job on a local paper was creating the advertising as well as working as a journalist on…

— Franny Armstrong

The newspaper journalists like to believe the worst; they can sell more papers that way, as one of them told me himself;…

— Margaret Atwood

Friend of mine, a smart journalist, had his iPad stolen. He couldn't help that - the thief broke into his house. But…

— Barton Gellman

Journalists are more powerful now than they've ever been, and we all know what power does. Anyone who disses the media is…

— Charles McGrath

I do worry about the press and a President Trump. You know, I think it's dangerous the entire de-legitimization that he's engaged…

— Megyn Kelly

We're definitely in an era where the government wants to keep more secrets and it wants to come after anyone who's exposing…

— Laura Poitras

I can't become naked for everybody. It's never going to be possible for the person to write the whole story completely, so…

— Rei Kawakubo

...The British press... [claimed that Tony] Blair was simply Bush's poodle - a favorite phrase, bewilderingly popular, although it made no sense…

— Larry King

After I graduated from the University of Glasgow, I was a self-employed archaeologist going from dig to dig around Scotland, and it…

— Neil Oliver

When I grew up in India, telephones were a rarity. In fact, they were so rare that elected members of Parliament had…

— Shashi Tharoor

Conception of a film starts with the music. Always. I hear the movie before I can ever write it. I would say…

— Cameron Crowe

I hate the world and almost all the people in it. I hate the Labour Congress and the journalists who send men…

— Bertrand Russell

You journalists bulldoze life's mysteries, ignorant of what you're so ruthlessly turning up.

— Marisha Pessl

David Carr was one of the most gifted journalists who has ever worked at The New York Times.

— Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

No real journalist makes $5 million a year... Those in power fear and dislike real journalists.

— Chris Hedges

I believe a journalist needs to be free to ask the questions he or she deems relevant, without constraints from others.

— Trish Regan

Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects.

— Sam Harris

I hate the word starchitect. Stuff like that comes from mean-spirited, untalented journalists. It's demeaning.

— Frank Gehry

I never actually went anywhere when I was a journalist. I was a critic, and I just sort of got stuff in…

— Colson Whitehead

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

There are so many journalists out there, I hate to say it, who are lazy and don't do their research - and…

— Douglas Preston

I was for many years myself a journalist and it is not appropriate to say a programme should not be broadcast.

— Christopher Monckton

I know loads of coppers and dealt with them a lot when I was a journalist - coppers are easy to write…

— Terry Pratchett

The responsibility that I feel is to do as good a job as a journalist as I can possibly do.

— Ted Koppel

It's a fun thing for journalists to say that Captain Kirk is the boyfriend role. I'm happy to give a laugh. But…

— Chris Pine

Reporters at the New York Times, they're not journalists, they're corporate lobbyists for Carlos Slim and for Hillary Clinton.

— Donald Trump

Censorship is un-American, and it's egregious that any journalist would advocate for others to be banned for political speech.

— Laura Loomer

While I am not a journalist, I have, myself, written more than one thing that has been plagiarized in the past.

— Ben Domenech