Art Quote by Declan Kiberd

A journalist uses the most precise words he or she can. An artist does the same sort of thing. You gather material about a…

— Ken Loach

“A writer's style should be direct and personal, his imagery rich and earthy, and his words simple and vigorous. The greatest writers have the…

— Ernest Hemingway

“Authors are merely the medium between the words and the page.”

— Caron Kamps Widden

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

— Karl Kraus

[I]n contrast to the common belief that they are the world's greatest cynics, the best journalists are the world's great idealists. They have experienced…

— Anna Quindlen

“[...]all men are writers, journalists scribbling within their skulls the narrative of what they see and hear[...]”

— Terry Pratchett

“Journalists of late seem too eager to change the world in various ways; the point is to describe it, accurately and carefully.”

— David Burr Gerrard

“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

Journalists justify their treachery in various ways according to their temperaments. The more pompous talk about freedom of speech and ‘the public’s right to…

— Janet Malcolm

“The challenge of a journalist is to condense a thousand thoughts into a single sound bite. The challenge of an author is to place…

— Charles A. Cornell

Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that…

— Kenneth Tynan

“Most journalists are impatient to get their legwork done and to start the actual writing”

— David Halberstam