Articles Quote by Amy Hempel

The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and…

— Mark Twain

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed…

— Aleister Crowley

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to…

— Aleister Crowley

When you are a journalist, you are always looking for the next story. It might come from a phone call from a contact or…

— Fiona Barton

“principles of reading: reduce articles to their essence, read and write in the same day, subscribe to journals, and learn to skim.”

— Wendy Laura Belcher

In journalism, if there's a hole in your story you figure out a way around it because you've got a 4 p.m. deadline. It's…

— Achy Obejas

There seem to be two ways of generating interest from the reader: withholding information or by telling the reader on the first page exactly…

— Christopher Bollen

As a journalist, you want to try to maintain that objectivity and detachment.

— Susanna Reid

“I would tell young journalists to be brave and go against the tide. When everyone else is relying on the internet, you should not;…

— Judy Polumbaum

If you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you.

— Madeleine L'Engle

I don't write a word of the article until I have the lead. It just sets the whole tone - the whole point of…

— Nora Ephron

If I had been asked to write 1,200 words for a newspaper tomorrow, on any subject, I would just do it rather than leave…

— Tom Stoppard