Journalist Quotes

716 Journalist quotes by 527 unique authors

It had never occurred to us that the Kremlin's new anti-booze campaign would apply to journalists. Now, that's a human-rights violation. — P.J. O'Rourke
I take it that a monograph of this sort belongs to the ephemera literature of science. The studied care which is warranted in the treatment… — Gilbert N. Lewis
I am personally acquainted with hundreds of journalists, and the opinion of the majority of them would not be worth tuppence in private, but when… — Mark Twain
A woman journalist in England asked me why Americans usually wrote about their childhood and a past that happened only in imagination, why they never… — John Steinbeck
There is probably some long-standing "rule" among writers, journalists, and other word-mongers that says: "When you start stealing from your own work you're in bad… — Hunter S. Thompson
Copywriters, journalists, mainstream authors, ghostwriters, bloggers and advertising creatives have as much right to think of themselves as good writers as academics, poets, or literary… — Sara Sheridan
An English journalist called Michael Viney told me when I was 25, that I would write well if I cared a lot what I was… — Maeve Binchy
It was when reporters became journalists and when objectivity gave way to searching for truth, that an aura of distrust and fear arose around the… — Georgie Anne Geyer
The dominant and most deep-dyed trait of the journalist is his timorousness. Where the novelist fearlessly plunges into the water of self-exposure, the journalist stands… — Janet Malcolm
If you're a good journalist, what you do is live a lot of things vicariously, and report them for other people who want to live… — Harry Reasoner
I always warn aspiring reporters to observe three basic rules: 1. Never trust an editor. 2. Never trust an editor. 3. Never trust an editor. — Edna Buchanan
I've said what I'm prepared to say in my poems, and then journalists think that you're going to tell them a whole lot more. — Wendy Cope
My father was an engineer - he wasn't literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of the world's great readers. Every… — Janet Fitch
I'm not a journalist; I'm a poet. — Werner Herzog
The one problem with the Internet for journalists who like doing long form is that any story that's going to involve 16 screens on the… — Nancy Gibbs
I like it when journalists are nice to me, and it's happening more and more. — Ronnie Wood
I feel like, in some ways, I'm just a journalist. — Nanci Griffith
I have respect for my fellow journalists at the other networks, and I wish them all well. This is a tough business, so good for… — Megyn Kelly
Being a journalist is good if you want to write books: it teaches you to get beyond the blank screen. My books have been described… — Sophie Kinsella
I never did any training in journalism or in finance, so I really was in the deep end. I got very good at going to… — Sophie Kinsella
The bad news for journalists today is that the media, however seriously people who are in the public eye take it, is not taken as… — Alastair Campbell
At school, a careers adviser asked me what I wanted to be, and I said 'fashion journalist,' so writing for 'Vogue' has provided me with… — Alexa Chung
We journalists are never so idiotic as when we analyze things that we shouldn't be analyzing. — Joe Klein
I'd probably still be a financial journalist now if it weren't for writing novels. Mmm. Fun! I'm much happier writing novels! — Sophie Kinsella
As a journalist, I'm not supposed to be the subject, but as an author, I'm fair game - another ingredient in the media soup. — Michael Azerrad

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