Dangerous Quote by Ehud Olmert

The biggest problem I have in journalism is being quoted or misquoted and then being asked to defend something I haven't said.

— Robert Fisk

Journalists have misquoted people for so long - and quoted them out of context that for many people like to have their words on…

— Jason Calacanis

Everything in journalism is about the detail that makes the whole, the attempts to reproduce speech patterns while not actually quoting the whole thing…

— Neil Gaiman

“You may be shocked by how fragile information is, and I fear it is only getting worse. Each transmission of a quote can sometimes…

— Garson O'Toole

As a journalist, your words are regularly read by lots of people, but they're not your words: they're someone else's. You're quoting people.

— Fiona Barton

There's a dangerous bottom-lining, and super-summarizing that happens in a lot of our press and our media, and sort of our politicians' talking points,…

— Seth Gordon

Sometimes during a conversation with a journalist - where you are answering things you never normally talk about, not even with some of your…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

In a print interview, as you may or may not know, they [editors] can do whatever they want. And they do. This is why…

— Fran Lebowitz

The trouble with being quoted a lot is that it makes other people think you're quoting yourself when in fact you're merely repeating yourself.

— Larry Wall

Because I dislike being quoted I lie almost constantly when talking about my work.

— Terry Gilliam

I'm talking to a journalist and I really have nothing to say anymore, this is already uncomfortable. I feel the pain coming already. The…

— Vincent Gallo

I've had more misrepresentations than I can handle, and people have told the wickedest lies about me. A lot of them have taken their…

— Grace Jones