Average Quote by H. L. Mencken

To the best of my knowledge and belief, the average American newspaper, even of the so-called better sort, is not only quite as bad…

— H. L. Mencken

It's arguably the best newspaper in the world.

— Steve Coogan

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

The New York Times is the worst newspaper in the world and it's extremely vicious to artists.

— James Purdy

“The real trouble with the newspapers is that while they frequently exhibit the average man at his worst, they rarely show him at his…

— Booker T. Washington

The worse the newspapers speak of the world, the better I feel.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

A good newspaper is never nearly good enough but a lousy newspaper is a joy forever.

— Garrison Keillor

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

I've never worked for a newspaper. I've had some very bad reviews in newspapers.

— Truman Capote

Show me a contented newspaper editor and I will show you a bad newspaper.

— Arthur Christiansen

I believe the Times is a great newspaper, but a profoundly fallible one.

— Daniel Okrent

I think most newspapermen by definition have to be liberal; if they're not liberal, by definition of it, then they can hardly be good…

— Walter Cronkite