Long Quote by Alma Guillermoprieto

I've always thought of myself as a reporter.

— Gwendolyn Brooks

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

— David Grann

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

— Joan Didion

There are certain stories that remind you of the moral purpose that originally drew you to become a reporter.

— David Grann

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

— Patricia Marx

As a journalist, I've been a professional watcher, picking up the body language and verbal tics that make us individuals and interesting to others.

— Fiona Barton

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

— Joan Didion

When I was a general assignment reporter early in my career, I was the one knocking on their door after a tragedy.

— Tamron Hall

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

— Tom Stoppard

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

— Joan Didion

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

— Hunter S. Thompson

I've been a reporter for 20 years, and I don't ever get things wrong. That's important in terms of my professional status.

— Ron Suskind