Journalist Quotes

716 Journalist quotes by 527 unique authors

Socially, a journalist ranks somewhere between the madam of a whorehouse and a bartender. but spiritually he ranks with Galileo, for he knows the world… — Ben Hecht
An erudite is someone who displays less than he knows; a journalist or consultant the opposite. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
When journalists are 'accused' of being 'advocates', that means: challenging and deviating from DC orthodoxies. — Glenn Greenwald
People - pardon me, journalists and politicians - have often accused me of believing that I'm above the law. And yet, who isn't? Everywhere you… — L. Neil Smith
Deep in my heart it still feels like I'm a journalist even though I haven't worked for a paper and carried a press pass for… — Michael Connelly
I feel I'm functioning at some level as a journalist because even though I write fiction, I'm trying to get the world accurate. — Michael Connelly
I wrote my first real murder story as a journalist for the Daytona Beach News Journal in 1980. It was about a body found in… — Michael Connelly
You do not conceive a novel as easily as you conceive a child, nor even half as easily as you create nonfiction work. A journalist… — Zelda Popkin
Probably having fallen in love with music and movies at a young age and then first learning about writing by kind of following the path… — Cameron Crowe
I went to the Democratic Convention as a journalist, and returned a cold-blooded revolutionary. — Hunter S. Thompson
Embarrassed journalists ask me embarrassing questions, and they get embarrassing answers, and then hand out embarrassing stories to the embarrassing editors, who put them to… — Yao Ming
Be a journalist. I can't get away from you guys, then I just mingle with you guys. — Yao Ming
The journalists are poking me all the time. It's impossible for me to stop even I want to. — Yao Ming
I got overwhelmed by the magnitude of the celebrity culture in America. My background is as a news journalist, and newsrooms in the US are… — Carl Hiaasen
Ive never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography. — James Frey
To a journalist, good news is often not news at all. — Phil Donahue
I am a journalist and, under the modern journalist's code of Olympian objectivity (and total purity of motive), I am absolved of responsibility. We journalists… — P.J. O'Rourke
Music journalists love Elvis Costello and hate me because they look like Elvis Costello — David Lee Roth
I don't think there is one size that fits all [] I've been to too many meetings with journalists who spent the first 10 minutes… — Steve Ballmer
When I went in, my editor said, ‘I hope you don’t think you’re a writer.’ And I said, ‘I hope you don’t think I’m a… — Julia Cameron
It's a journalist's job to be a witness to history. We're not there to worry about ourselves. We're there to try and get as near… — Robert Fisk
In just one year in Bosnia, thirty of my colleagues died. There is a little Somme waiting for all innocent journalists. — Robert Fisk
I suppose, in the end, we journalists try - or should try - to be the first impartial witnesses of history. If we have any… — Robert Fisk
I wasn't imposing my presence on anyone, which is very important for a would- be journalist. I stayed back. Always let people be themselves. — Elliott Erwitt
The life of a journalist is poor, nasty, brutish, and short. So is his style — Stella Gibbons

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