Journalist Quotes

716 Journalist quotes by 527 unique authors

Too few journalists become screenwriters. I say to all the would-be screenwriters: Become journalists. And I’ll say to working journalists: Do not stay journalists. Become… — Nora Ephron
For me, in terms of personal satisfaction, the mission's already accomplished. I already won. As soon as the journalists were able to work, everything that… — Edward Snowden
The most important thing for anyone, I think, is to be engaged, whether you're an artist or a journalist is to be engaged in the… — Billy Bragg
Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are… — Kenneth Tynan
I won't say he [Shakespeare] 'invented' us, because journalists perpetually misunderstand me on that. I'll put it more simply: he contains us. Our ways of… — Harold Bloom
Before 2013, if you said the NSA was making records of everybody's phone calls and the [Government Communications Headquarters] was monitoring lawyers and journalists, people… — Edward Snowden
Twitter is not just for Journalists. You don’t have to be a writer to Tweet.[Social Media] — Germany Kent
All nonfiction writers, whether they like it or not, are translators. The translator is the perfect journalist. The best journalism endeavors to convey an essential… — Ilan Stavans
Journalists have made celebrities into an industry. — Stefanie Powers
There's never any time I think I'm a real journalist, because I don't have any of the qualifications or the intentions for that. — John Oliver
Even after the Rosenthal column, nobody responsible in the Republican Party said, 'Yes, Pat Buchanan is an anti-Semite.' They didn't join in. Very few journalists… — Robert Novak
Politicians are just Daily Mail journalists writ large, aren't they? They're always telling us what's going to happen, and we know they don't know! — Tom Baker
There's many heroic underappreciated investigative journalists. — Robert Crumb
Richard A. Posner is an extraordinary person. If he did not exist, it would be hard to believe that he could. (...) He writes with… — Alan Ryan
Journalists cover words and delude themselves into thinking they have committed journalism. — Hedrick Smith
Bad things don't happen to writers; it's all material. — Garrison Keillor
There is a terrific disadvantage in not having the abrasive quality of the press applied to you daily. Even though we never like it, and… — John F. Kennedy
...opening up a newspaper is the key to looking classy and smart. Never mind the bronze-plated stuff about the role of the press in a… — Garrison Keillor
It will be my earnest aim that The New York Times give the news, all the news, in concise and attractive form, in language that… — Adolph Ochs
There is room in this great and growing city for a journal that is not only cheap but bright, not only bright but large, not… — Joseph Pulitzer
The [Oregon] Journal in its head and heart will stand for the people, be truly Democratic and free from political entanglements and machinations, believing in… — Samuel L. Jackson
I have long thought that his [Rupert Murdoch's] social philosophy was contained in his cartoon show, The Simpsons: all politicians and public officials are crooks,… — Conrad Black
If you maintain a consistent political position long enough, you'll eventually be accused of treason. — Mort Sahl
... Don [Hewitt, 60 Minutes exec producer] told me, "You have set broadcast journalism back 20 years." Naturally, I was both proud and elated although… — Nicholas von Hoffman
Diminished circumstances had no effect on his sense of what was honorable: after The Spectator sent him a check for a piece it had accepted… — Louis Menand

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