Apologizing Quote by Fareed Zakaria

When you're writing for the New York Times someone reading it knows the topic better than you do and knows when you've messed up.

— David Plotz

“We simply organized the information differently—that’s all we did. And the New York Times was making a federal case out of it.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I would encourage people to go to NYTIMES.com and read this column and you can see for yourself.

— Tucker Carlson

If you rewrite a paragraph fifty times and forty-nine of them are terrible, that's fine; you only need to get it right once.

— Tana French

I found out - the paper used to go to bed on Tues - on Monday. I found out that on Monday nights, the…

— Nat Hentoff

“This fixation on the finished article causes writers a lot of trouble, deflecting them from all the earlier decisions that have to be made…

— William Zinsser

“The journalist must strive to find out what is going on and tell it, not neuter the truth in the name of equal time.”

— Joe Sacco

It's always the paragraphs I loved most, the ones I tenderly polished and re-read with pride, that my editor will suggest cutting.

— Liane Moriarty

Look at this Judith Miller thing. Isn't that problematic? Like, she's getting fed information from the White House and she's feeding it to her…

— Aaron McGruder

You have to see the stories [The New York Times] have written, it's one after another, after another, and facts mean nothing, third-rate journalism.…

— Donald Trump

Writing a column, a weekly column for the New York Times, is really tough, and I wasn't prepared for the demands that that involved.

— David Plotz

I don't do much rewriting, because each paragraph is very carefully put together.

— Jayne Anne Phillips