Journalist Quotes · Page 24

That's always been my test for what makes a story: is this something journalists would gossip with each other about?

— Nick Denton

As a journalist, you don't tend to interview people with a view to becoming their friend. You can't expect that. It's not…

— Sheila Heti

Journalists are too poorly paid in this country to know anything that is fit for publication.

— George Bernard Shaw

I guess because I'm a washed-up journalist, I always do a lot of research.

— Mary Kay Andrews

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

— Maria Ressa

The training of a journalist, of working with words for thousands of hours, is extraordinarily useful for a fiction writer.

— Tom Rachman

I worked for a brief spell as a journalist, but soon I discovered that I didn't want to be a journalist -…

— Robert Darnton

Journalists say my music is "blue wave," or "dreamy," or "jangly-slacker jewel," and none of it really makes sense to me.

— Mac DeMarco

I started writing when I was a journalist. But every time I sat down to write a novel or a story, I…

— Damian Barr

“Hi," (cough), "my name is Jasmin Field. I'm a journalist. So don't piss me off. Ha ha. And um - well, I…

— Melissa Nathan

France: As a professional journalist, I like the idea of a society where it is considered an acceptable occupation to basically sit…

— Dave Barry

I think it's a problem when journalists have the title of their article before they do the interview, because it biases the…

— Michel Gondry

I think I've proven that I'm issue-oriented and I'm not apolitical. But I'm not a journalist and I don't want to be…

— Mariette Hartley

My emotional and intellectual response to Hiroshima was that the question of the social responsibility of a journalist was posed with greater…

— Wilfred Burchett

I'm loath to use my personal life to promote what I do, but at the same time, I don't like a journalist…

— Johnny Vegas

The prospect that I could actually be a journalist triggered a 'Who do you think you are?' reaction in me. It was…

— Jodi Kantor

“The reason why she had chosen journalism was because of those who had done so before her. Stalwart women and men who…

— Shweta Ganesh Kumar

Although he reputedly hated the label of 'guru', Peter Drucker was, by any standards, the greatest management guru the world has yet…

— Peter Drucker

...the prominent Egyptian government minister, university professor, and writer Taha Hussein...devoted himself to the study of pre-Islamic Arabian poetry and ended up…

— Toby Lester

A free press is one where it's okay to state the conclusion you're led to by the evidence. One reason I'm in…

— Bill Moyers

How is it that, in the face of overwhelming scientific evidence, there are still some who would deny the dangers of climate…

— Nicholas Stern

Everybody was in tears. You turned on the radio or the television, and it was nothing but Gainsbourg. With typical British music…

— Sylvie Simmons

There's several ways to be a journalist. One way is to be combative and take the person to task and what you…

— Cameron Crowe

There is something I like about talking to journalists that really goes beyond promotion because you aren't just talking to the journalist,…

— Mick Jagger

Journalist: A person with nothing on his mind and the power to express it.

— Russell Baker

No journalist knows the ins and outs of the Allman Brothers Band better than Alan Paul.

— Warren Haynes

I started out as a journalist for about 8 or 9 years, and then I started working in film and television in 2014.

— Cord Jefferson

The media and their journalists are merely megaphones for stupidity, the verb par excellence.

— William C. Brown

You know journalists. You know the media. They are going to hang on to anything negative they possibly can.

— Hope Solo

“You think I’m finished, so you’re leaving me to be crucified by every piece of shit journalist in the fucking country.”

— Clive Barker

Being a journalist, Hacker had no particular talent for reporting facts.

— Jonathan Lynn

I feel like I'm in a horror film. Everywhere I turn, there's a journalist.

— Ksenia Sobchak

As for being an objective journalist? That's easy. I want what everyone else wants: the truth.

— Brooke Baldwin

A good journalist is modest; his only job is simple: to decide what counts as news.

— Michael Ignatieff

It's probably the journalist in me, but I'm naturally suspicious about consensus and always feel an impulse to confront it.

— Andrew Neil

One of the few benefits of being a journalist is that you're not in the Army.

— P. J. O'Rourke

I was a journalist and wrote about filmmakers, but I didn't review movies per se.

— Curtis Hanson

Journalists told me that a talk show wouldn't work. Some told me I was going to get canceled before my first season…

— Tyra Banks

“A journalist's work depends on a willingness to ask questions of people who are better informed and more powerful than you.”

— Elizabeth Pisani

Being an artist, it's always tempting to measure success through other people's eyes, be they critics, journalists or audiences.

— Sara Blecher