Reporter Quotes · Page 4

A reporter is never put off by somebody not wanting to be interviewed.

— Nat Hentoff

I never knew what a reporter looked like.

— Dwayne Andreas

Normally when one reporter talks to you at a tournament it's no big deal.

— Bubba Watson

I want to be the greatest investigative reporter of my generation.

— Michael Hastings

Listen, I'm not a politician. I'm not a news reporter. I make music, and I act.

— Kat Graham

When some reporter intrudes on your life, it can be hard on you.

— James Toney

The only way for a reporter to look at a politician is down.

— H. L. Mencken

I've always thought of myself as a reporter.

— Gwendolyn Brooks

I think as an investigative reporter I had tough standards, but I don't think of myself as a tough person.

— Jill Abramson

Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter - which is true - except for the pay!

— Jack Germond

“A burro is an ass. A burrow is a hole in the ground. A reporter should know the difference.”

— Fred Reed

As a reporter, you develop an ear for dialogue because it's your job to capture it accurately.

— Michael Connelly

I got my start in lefty journalism as a labor reporter at 'In These Times', and it's in my blood.

— Chris Hayes

I was so thrilled being a reporter, because it gave you the kind of access to people that you wouldn't ever get…

— Tom Stoppard

In a very straightforward way, I am a terrible reporter. I'm not someone who can go into a story and not get…

— Janine di Giovanni

It's astonishing what you learn and feel and see along the way. That's why a reporter's job, as you know, is such…

— Mike Wallace

I've been covering North Korea nuclear issues since I was a young reporter in the Tokyo bureau of 'The Times' and wrote…

— David E. Sanger

Donald Trump has come on a lot and I think one of the hardest parts of my job is digging down beyond…

— Maria Bartiromo

As a reporter, I embedded for modest stints with American soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq. When I'm asked about those experiences, I…

— Alex Berenson

Right now I'm trying to figure out what I'm gonna do, 'cause I don't want to sit around on my backside all…

— Joe Paterno

I read rip-and-read news, but I wasn't a reporter. I was reading the wire, and the other thing was, I was reading…

— Mike Wallace

As a reporter you tend to seek coherence from your subject or your source - it all needs to add up and…

— Amy Waldman

Early in my career I was much more confident in the almost omniscient powers of a reporter, because you could find anything…

— David Grann

It's kind of funny to read the work of ex-Marines and soldiers because what they said to me as a reporter was…

— George Packer

Writing for adults and writing for young people is really not that different. As a reporter, I have always tried to write…

— Serge Schmemann

I started as a print reporter. I’m a journalist and that’s what I do. My function is an anchorperson, but it’s in…

— Jim Lehrer

“She still loved the profession and enjoyed the lives and piece to cameras, but she knew it was all a tad too…

— Shweta Ganesh Kumar

We have entered a time when a writer's first idea is his best idea, when the first thing a reporter hears is…

— Scott Pelley

Everyone finds their own version of Charles Dickens. The child-victim, the irrepressibly ambitious young man, the reporter, the demonic worker, the tireless…

— Claire Tomalin

I was a news reporter for 16 years, seven of them a foreign correspondent in the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans.…

— Geraldine Brooks

I didn't realize what fun it was [ been a reporter].

— P. J. O'Rourke

Wolf Blitzer is an excellent reporter, but he's not a star.

— Roger Ailes

I don't think a reporter should give advice or make predictions.

— Peter Jennings

I'm a reporter by nature and training. I like things that make sense.

— Carole Radziwill

A journalist is a reporter out of a job.

— Mark Twain

As a cub reporter, I devoured books about journalism.

— Lionel Barber

I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter.

— Kate Adie

I was in the back of the book [in the The Reporter] doing music.

— Nat Hentoff

I'm not a reporter but the 'New Yorker' treats everyone like a reporter.

— David Sedaris

Being a reporter took me out of myself and that shaped me as a writer.

— Tom Barbash