Columnists Quote by Dave Barry

I always thought of myself as more of a columnist, but maybe a columnist who does reporting.

— John Gruber

In the age of social media, everyone's a newspaper columnist, exaggerating what they think and feel.

— Charlie Brooker

A newspaper that is true to its purpose concerns itself not only with the way things are but with the way they ought to…

— Joseph Pulitzer

“Newspapers struggle with the choice between using in-house journalists to produce content and aggregating content produced by others.”

— Bharat Anand

“If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the rhetorical question”

— Josh Stern

I find having a column a very difficult form of journalism. I'm not a natural like Tom Friedman and Anna Quindlen.

— Maureen Dowd

A columnist is not a doctor, who diagnoses the disease and dispenses instant medicine. My job is to highlight problems, investigate issues, to provide…

— Sucheta Dalal

Don't commit to being a columnist unless you're willing to do it right. Report your behind off, so you have something original and useful…

— Allan Sloan

I don't know any other columnists, and I don't know what they do. I work the single! And nobody does what I do, anyway.

— Jimmy Breslin

“Everyone goes into journalism for different reasons—and they’re often idealistic ones.”

— Thomas L. Friedman

“A newspaper that wishes to make its fortune should never waste its columns and weary its readers by praising anything.”

— Anthony Trollope

“I became a journalist because I did not want to rely on newspapers for information.”

— Christopher Hitchens