Open Quote by Dana Perino

“One thing I understood from the beginning is that the press almost completely tunes out abstractions. They won’t write about ideas without larger-than-life personalities…

— Eric S. Raymond

For many imaginative writers, working for the press is a fact of their life. But it's best not to like it too much.

— Hilary Mantel

Talking to the press is not always good.

— John Dickerson

“The press is a gang of cruel faggots. Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch-all for fuckoffs and…

— Hunter S. Thompson

I actually don't read the press. All the writers I admire were significantly reclusive, and I'm still trying to figure out how they got…

— Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The…

— Honore de Balzac

I don't know that I 'look up' to them, but in our predictably partisan media world, I admire journalists who are genuinely nonpartisan and…

— Willie Geist

I'm a member of the working press; you'd think I'd know better than to listen to journalists.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Honestly, I don't read the press. I don't know what they're saying.

— Serena Williams

Don't believe your own press, and don't give speeches.

— Sergio Marchionne

I think the most important thing for the public and the press is to just listen to what Donald Trump says and follow up…

— Barack Obama

I think [Newt] Gingrich who's been the - among the truth tellers to [Donald] Trump, I think, in public, take a listen.

— Chuck Todd