Bigs Quote by Anthony Shadid Download Open image “The best journalism is sometimes about footnotes—when we write small to say something big.” — Anthony Shadid ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bigs Footnotes Journalism Sometimes Writing
“I think that of all the principles for journalism, the most important is to complicate simple things and simplify complicated things. At first sight,… — Judy Polumbaum Copy Share Image
You don't have to always write about big stuff. Writing is about expressing yourself, you know? It can be about small stuff, too. — Mick Jones Copy Share Image
Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information which… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“The secret to good writing is to use small words for big ideas, not to use big words for small ideas.” — Oliver Markus Copy Share Image
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I think part of the reason anyone goes into journalism is to get a response to what they write. — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
A good journalist is not the one that writes what people say, but the one that writes what he is supposed to write. — Todor Zhivkov Copy Share Image
Journalism has a distinct place in familiarizing and expressing public opinion. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Great journalism will always attract readers. The words, pictures and graphics that are the stuff of journalism have to be brilliantly packaged; they must… — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
I often say that the best way to find a story is a one-inch brief in a local newspaper. — David Grann Copy Share Image
In a newspaper, you only have so much room. It teaches you the value of getting to the point, of not pampering yourself with… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
On the flip side, I enjoy covering the Arab world, I've spent my entire career here in the Middle East, but I would never… — Anthony Shadid Copy Share Image
Cultures that may seem as durable as stone can break like glass, leaving all the things that held them together unattended. I believe that… — Anthony Shadid Copy Share Image
“After life is bent, torn, exploded, there are shattered pieces that do not heal for years, if at all. What is left are scars… — Anthony Shadid Copy Share Image
“the sight of militiamen sipping coffee at Starbucks, their rocket-propelled grenades resting in chairs in a distinctly Lebanese vision of globalization.” — Anthony Shadid Copy Share Image
Journalism is always the art of the incomplete. You get bits and pieces. — Anthony Shadid Copy Share Image
I don't think there's any story worth dying for, but I do think there are stories worth taking risks for. — Anthony Shadid Copy Share Image
I had a great childhood. I think writers are always better off when they have more twisted childhoods, but I didn't. — Anthony Shadid Copy Share Image
The Americans invaded a country without understanding what eight years of a war with Iran had meant, how that traumatized Iraq. They didn't appreciate… — Anthony Shadid Copy Share Image
“Subtle and coy, the cemento at Maalouf's did not speak of war, or frontiers, and the spaces they narrowed, but, rather, grandeur. The tiles… — Anthony Shadid Copy Share Image
The one thing that shaped my life was when I was 15 or 16: I knew I wanted to be a journalist. And not… — Anthony Shadid Copy Share Image
“I should be in Beirut, I thought, working as a journalist, but another part of me was so wary of that old life of… — Anthony Shadid Copy Share Image
I am certain that children always know more than they are able to tell, and that makes the big difference between them and adults,… — Jacques Lusseyran Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The biggest change for me as a mom was realizing I needed to put someone else before me. Now the hardest part about the… — Kim Alexis Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of all the Boston guys that are acting - Matt Damon , Ben Affleck, Mark Wahlberg - they made a… — Kenny Wormald Copy Share Image
The only regret I have in my career, is my managers wanted a big payday, and I wanted four or five more fights before… — Gerry Cooney Copy Share Image
It goes to show you how we in the press so often miss the big stories that are right under our noses. There is… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Okay, so I'll admit I'm curious. Big deal. We both know what that leads to. Dead cat. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
I don't want this to be a distraction. This has been distracting enough. I'm not going to rehash this going forward. I'm sure other… — Jayson Werth Copy Share Image
I didn't get how big it was until I went home, turned on the television and saw it on all the news, and later… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
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