Composition Quote by Frances Trollope

Journalists justify their treachery in various ways according to their temperaments. The more pompous talk about freedom of speech and ‘the public’s right to…

— Janet Malcolm

The liberty of the press is not confined to newspapers and periodicals. It necessarily embraces pamphlets and leaflets.

— Charles Evans Hughes

“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

We have perhaps all said things in unguarded moments that we would not want printed in newspapers.

— John I. Jenkins

Newspapers necessarilyand inevitably reflect, and therefore, in greater or lesser measure, intensify, the defective organization of public opinion.

— Walter Lippmann

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

Honestly, I don't read newspapers, magazines, whatever. They're just not part of my lexicon. I don't want to be manipulated, or manipulated about other…

— Madonna Ciccone

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

— Henry Louis Mencken

“Struggling for survival and relevance, we as a profession of political journalists and commentators have collectively debased our craft to the lowest common denominator—writing…

— Kerry-Anne Walsh

Newspapers write about other newspapers with circumspection, ... about themselves with awe, and only after mature reflection.

— A. J. Liebling

“We have our responsibilities as readers and even our importance. The standards we raise and the judgments we pass steal in the air and…

— Virginia Woolf

In the nature of things, a person engaged in the flimsy business of expressing himself on paper is dependent on the large general privilege…

— E. B. White