Journalist Quotes · Page 23

I was a lousy journalist. I could never be objective. Sometimes I invented the whole story.

— Isabel Allende

I think we should be alarmed, watchful, and, as journalists, rigorous and fearless. I think we should be alert.

— David Remnick

I was happy being a journalist. I didn't realize losing my job, my identity went with it.

— Maria Shriver

I ask the Philippines Government to put an end to journalists' killings by giving journalists' safety the priority it deserves.

— Warren Christopher

I was a sort of rock journalist - whatever that is - in London in the late '60s.

— Jonathan Demme

There is another reason journalists like to drink and eat together: they simply cannot think of better company.

— Osborn Elliott

As a journalist, I fundamentally believe that keeping the public informed is an essential part of democracy.

— Margaret Brennan

Imagine having journalists in your own home and not even covering the furniture with plastic sheets first.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Hitler and Joseph Goebbels understood that if you say something loud and long enough many people will believe it. A good journalist's…

— Bill O'Reilly

I was a very bad journalist. Awful. I would just invent everything. If I did an interview, I had a preconception of…

— Isabel Allende

In the US, the 50s and 60s marked the documentary's golden age, especially at CBS, where pioneering televison journalist Edward R Murrow,…

— Naomi Wolf

This much we know: Journalism is not a precise science. It's, on its best day, is a crude art. We make mistakes;…

— Dan Rather

Critics? Don't talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and…

— Jonathan Raban

It's important for all people, and not just people in bands, to speak out on social justice issues. That means journalists or…

— Serj Tankian

When my youngest daughter got married, I designed her wedding dress and I really let my imagination and energy go crazy! All…

— Kansai Yamamoto

Possibly because I did start off as a journalist, my starting point has always been that you've got to keep an audience…

— Tom Stoppard

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

Last year, the journalist Malcolm Gladwell conducted a survey of chief executive officers of Fortune 500 companies for his book Blink. He…

— Daniel Finkelstein

“As an editor, you develop a B.S. meter—an internal warning system that signals caution about journalism that doesn't feel trustworthy. Sometimes it's…

— Jacob Weisberg

I think the biggest challenge was being aware of a certain audience that was going to see this film [lone survivor]. There's…

— Peter Berg

I am an emotional and fragile person. I observe life, I am perceptive and can read a person's body language. I have…

— Madhur Bhandarkar

“I hear her smiling when she describes her outfit: “I made myself fashionable. And diplomatic. They all took my picture. The BBC,…

— Jenny Nordberg

The professions of novelist and journalist are very separate. As a novelist, you are ultimately working for yourself. Yes, you need the…

— Jon Weisman

When I was in college, I did sort of want to be a journalist. Being an actor, you kind of have the…

— Sigourney Weaver

“The dividing line between a journalist and an author is very thin. If a journalist is not author, it is his or…

— K.S.R. Menon

But the time has come for journalists to acknowledge that a zone of privacy does exist.

— Roger Mudd

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

— Chris Powell

Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about,…

— Russell Baker

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

Whatever you do, whether you're a journalist or a player, you want to see what you can do - that's why you're…

— Alun Wyn Jones

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

— Ryan Murphy

I think if journalists were responsible for international policy we'd have a nuclear war every week.

— Tony Benn

One of the perks of my job as a fashion journalist is the travel opportunity.

— Derek Blasberg

I was a political journalist for a long time. I wrote a book about Putin. I made all kinds of trouble.

— Masha Gessen

I am not a new journalist, whatever that is. I just sit here at the typewriter and bang away at the old…

— Nora Ephron

If you're a good journalist, what you do is live a lot of things vicariously, and report them for other people who…

— Harry Reasoner

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

— Jill Abramson

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

— Stella Gibbons

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

— Karl Kraus