Change the world Quote by David Burr Gerrard

“The job of the writer is to change the way the reader sees the world.”

— after Richard Ford

“ became a journalist to come as close as possible to the heart of the world.”

— Henry R. Luce

“The journalist must strive to find out what is going on and tell it, not neuter the truth in the name of equal time.”

— Joe Sacco

“Journalists...chronicle our everyday lives. They reveal truths and information that the public deserves to know, and they provide a record for posterity, so that…

— Celeste Ng

“the easy bit – passing the material to sympathetic journalists – was proving tricky.”

— Luke Harding

“The making of a journalist: no ideas and the ability to express them.”

— Karl Kraus

“With sufficient perspective, nothing is good or bad. The historian who ventures to judge the past is writing journalism in another century.”

— Emil M. Cioran

“the journalist philosophy. This name is a nod to the fact that journalists, like Walter Isaacson, are trained to shift into a writing mode…

— Cal Newport

“You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can't, but also knowing that literature is indispensable to the…

— Anonymous

“Journalists are notoriously prone to exaggerate the beneficial impact of elections and to ignore more complex developments.”

— Patrick Cockburn

“By focusing exclusively on the events of the day, journalism all but severs the connection between time and eternity. It makes the world appear…

— Craig M. Gay

“It’s the great flaw of journalism. The more something happens, the less newsworthy it is.”

— Nathan Hill