Journalism Quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Any rich, unprogressive old party with that particularly grasping, acquisitive form of mentality known as financial genius can own a paper that is the…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“We want to believe. Young students try to believe in older authors, constituents try to believe in their congressmen, countries try to believe in…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“They were suddenly saying to people with nothing but paper representations of wealth, “Wake up, you idiots! Whatever made you think paper was so…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The newspaper journalists like to believe the worst; they can sell more papers that way, as one of them told me himself; for even…

— Margaret Atwood

“Newspapers are a bad habit, the reading equivalent of junk food. What happens to me is that I seize upon an issue in the…

— John Irving

“Newspapers are owned and published by rich men. Rich men all belong to the same club. Sure, there’s competition—hard tough competition for circulation, for…

— Raymond Chandler

“Yet the press was still the last resource of the educated poor who could not be artists and would not be tutors. Any man…

— Henry Adams

“The rich can get whatever they want put into the papers.”

— Alice McDermott

“The average newspaper, especially of the better sort, has the intelligence of a hillbilly evangelist, the courage of a rat, the fairness of a…

— H. L. Mencken

“ and some of the people i knew were contemplating our circumstances. our circumstances being poorly paid jobs if we worked in the arts,…

— Sloane Crosley

“In my judgment, we suffer quite as much from exaggerated, hysterical, and untruthful or slanderous statements in the press as from any wrongdoing by…

— Peter Hartshorn

“The financial value put on the job of the writer and the misconceptions around that make it extremely difficult to enter the profession.”

— Sara Sheridan