Reporter Quotes

I'm a reporter. I'm not a scholar.

— Peter Jennings

“I can't drop it. It's how I'm drawn.”

— I.B. Nosey

I started as a print reporter.

— Jim Lehrer

I'm just a reporter.

— Alissa Quart

I'm not a war reporter.

— Matthew Heineman

“That could be a very sexy story.”

— LynDee Walker

“Fear didn't suit me.”

— Gwenda Bond

I used to be a print reporter.

— Bob Schieffer

Being a reporter is as much a diagnosis as a job description.

— Anna Quindlen

I've said many times: I'm not a Washington reporter.

— Michael Wolff

I am a student of stupidity. I am a political reporter.

— P. J. O'Rourke

I was a finalist for the Pulitzer as a reporter.

— Robert Scheer

Being a good writer doesn’t make you a good reporter, it takes hustle.

— David Carr

I wasn't the greatest reporter in the world, but I wasn't starting at zero.

— Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr

Reporter lady: What's that color? John: Hm. I'd call this a color!

— John Lennon

Well I just always wanted to be a newspaper reporter.

— Anonymous

Painter baby you could be the muse. I'm the reporter baby you could be the news.

— Miguel Jontel

I was always the sideline reporter or something similar to that - which is essentially, but this isn't always true, the 'woman's…

— Samantha Ponder

When you cover the economy as a reporter, there's one part of the job that is always easy: finding economists who disagree.

— Adam Davidson

Given my calling I had to stumble across people who felt the same way. I was a young reporter.

— Hunter S. Thompson

“He thought I’d be his best reporter, said I had a surprising mind. In my two years on the job I’d consistently…

— Gillian Flynn

I was in Bucks County at the 'Bucks County Currier Times,' which is a great place to start for any reporter who…

— Erik Larson

When you're a crime reporter, you see the nub of what life's about, and you don't have much patience for the falsity…

— Heather Brooke

[ I'm] humorist, I guess. Or really more of a reporter. A reporter who reports on funny things.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Because I was once a reporter, I've always felt a sense of estrangement inside the newsroom. The field is alive and interactive,…

— Wadah Khanfar

My degree was in education, but the idea of being a teacher lost out to being a reporter. I worked at a…

— Joan Ganz Cooney

“My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people…

— Joan Didion

But just before they cut back to the main newscaster, I see the unmistakable flash of that same mockingjay's wing. The reporter…

— Suzanne Collins

A reporter meets interesting people. If he endures, he will get to know princes and presidents, popes and paupers, prostitutes and panderers.…

— Jim Bishop

I've had to take roles that on purpose were not Will-like so that someone like 'The Hollywood Reporter' would write, 'McCormack shows…

— Eric McCormack

I've been a war reporter and a human rights defender. A professor and a columnist. A diplomat and - by far most…

— Samantha Power

Having small children and being an investigative reporter would seem like a difficult mix, but it worked well for me. I was…

— Jill Abramson

A police reporter walks into the worst moment in someone's life on every single story that he covers. It's not like being…

— Bob Schieffer

I knew early on that I wanted to be a reporter, but I didn't know I was a political journalist until my…

— Gwen Ifill

“We have to defend views we don't share and impose them on the public; deal with questions we don't understand and vulgarize…

— Pitigrilli

In my day a reporter who took an assignment was wholly on his own until he got back to the office, and…

— H. L. Mencken

I am very, very old-fashioned and clumsy. I use those long reporter notebooks. This is what a troglodyte I am. The night…

— David Quammen

“Nowhere. No one is ever going to hear from you again, sir. No one." 'Uh... well... I...' 'You profane my world, sir!…

— Jeff Rice

“I used to think the most important thing for a reporter was to be where the news is and be the first…

— Judy Polumbaum

“How good would Flynn be in bed – a real bed, with crisp, clean sheets? She’d seen and handled enough of his…

— Brynn Kelly