Books Quote by George Orwell

“There was a whole chain of separate departments dealing with proletarian literature, music, drama and entertainment generally. Here were produced rubbishy newspapers containing almost…

— George Orwell

“Newspapers, of course, need both news and fanfare. A blending of gossip and truth.”

— Paul Tobin

“What I fault newspapers for is that day after day they draw our attention to insignificant things whereas only three or four times in…

— Marcel Proust

“The attention for bad literature is symptomatic: they pretends its the most normal thing in the world to fill an entire newspaper page with…

— Martinus Hendrikus Benders

Newspapers. . . give us the bald, sordid, disgusting facts of life. They chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate, and with…

— Oscar Wilde

“For whatever the era, nationality, gender and genre; whether realistic, traditional, fabulist, historical, fantasist, minimalist, crossover, the writer worthy of the literary arts and…

— Gregorio C. Brillantes

“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

“In our modern world, this elemental quality of storytelling is denied. We live today in a world in which everything has its place and…

— Michael Richardson

“Unfortunately, mainstream news has become infotainment, sharing more in common with the entertainment industry than with traditional journalism. Gossip, characterizations and injections of drama…

— Lance Morcan

“If [literature] should turn into pure propaganda or pure entertainment, society will slip back into the sty of the immediate -- which is to…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Here we are in the century of information, that is to say the unformed. Every kind of literature will be journalistic, with a science…

— Julien Torma

“But behind the superficial appearance of a time of radical upheaval, most governments and ordinary people simply did not experience the Belle Époque in…

— Paul Ham