Help Quote by Ernest Hemingway

In a newspaper, you only have so much room. It teaches you the value of getting to the point, of not pampering yourself with…

— Mitch Albom

Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next…

— Adam Clymer

I am glad I worked on a newspaper because it made me know I had to write whether I felt like it or not.

— Susan Glaspell

The newspaper is, in fact, very bad for one's prose style. That's why I gravitated towards feature stories where you get a little more…

— Tom Wolfe

If I had been asked to write 1,200 words for a newspaper tomorrow, on any subject, I would just do it rather than leave…

— Tom Stoppard

When you're writing for newspapers you have all these parameters. You can't swear, you have to use short paragraphs, all that. If you stay…

— Chuck Klosterman

Many writers learned their craft and work ethic at a newspaper. I benefited from that.

— Michael Connelly

Writing for a newspaper is like running a revolutionary war. You go to battle not when you are ready, but when action offers itself.

— Norman Mailer

If you don't hit a newspaper reader between the eyes with your first sentence, there is no need of writing a second one.

— Arthur Brisbane

The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.

— Don Marquis

The first time I ever wrote anything, it was an editorial column for my high school newspaper.

— Nahnatchka Khan

Newspapers are so boring. How can you read a newspaper that starts with a 51-word lead sentence?

— Jimmy Breslin