Accounts Quote by Bob Schieffer

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

As a writer I'm merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

My experience as a newspaper reporter was invaluable in terms of getting me to the kind of writing I do now. It gave me…

— Michael Connelly

Copywriters, journalists, mainstream authors, ghostwriters, bloggers and advertising creatives have as much right to think of themselves as good writers as academics, poets, or…

— Sara Sheridan

A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

Well, you know when people are no good at anything else they become writers.

— W. Somerset Maugham

I think most newspapermen by definition have to be liberal; if they're not liberal, by definition of it, then they can hardly be good…

— Walter Cronkite

I've learned over the years that big-name writers might be treated fairly by the media conglomerates that dominate publishing today. But the average author…

— Thomas Hauser

I think the press does, too; it's just the few crazies and paparazzi that give them a bad name. Real writers write good things.…

— Debbie Reynolds

A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.

— Baron de Montesquieu

I think that money is devoted to serious journalism, with analysis, interestingly presented, by good writers can still sell newspapers.

— Phillip Knightley

High-profile columnists should remember they are in a privileged position. Writing isn't a dreadfully specific skill - it's taught to millions via our schooling…

— Rob Manuel