Certainty Quote by Eliza Griswold

Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world.

— Archibald MacLeish

I'm not a journalist; I'm a poet.

— Werner Herzog

I think journalism is useful training for a writer in the way it takes the preciousness out of the pragmatic side of the craft.

— Kevin Barry

I don't believe a poet has a better hold on truth or morality than a fiction writer has. And I don't think a fiction…

— Colum McCann

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

— Oscar Wilde

Poetry, the best of it, is lunar and is concerned with the essential insanities. Journalism is solar (there are numerous newspapers named The Sun,…

— Tom Robbins

Journalism is very much public writing, writing with an audience in mind, writing for publication, and frequently writing quickly. And I know that when…

— Achy Obejas

I have a journalism degree, but I'd rather be the person who is being written about rather than the person who is writing.

— Chris Jericho

Journalism, as concerns collecting information, differs little if at all from intelligence work. In my judgment, a journalist's job is very interesting.

— Vladimir Putin

Writing in journalism teaches you to be very comfortable taking criticism, being edited, and rewriting.

— Neil Drumming

Writing poetry helps me to write my fiction; each thing helps the other.

— Sandra Cisneros

I think I'm a journalist in one sense - I want to communicate to people about certain things that are happening around us, around…

— Alfredo Jaar