Always Quote by J. Michael Straczynski

There are certain stories that remind you of the moral purpose that originally drew you to become a reporter.

— David Grann

It's astonishing what you learn and feel and see along the way. That's why a reporter's job, as you know, is such a joy.

— Mike Wallace

So often, as a reporter, we have to parachute into places. We don't have much time. We have to make sense of the story…

— Elizabeth Flock

Someday perhaps I'll have to get a grownup job... but for now I'm having too much fun being a reporter.

— Andrea Mitchell

There's some irony in playing a journalist after some of the stuff that has been written about me, but it's a great profession, particularly…

— James Nesbitt

I've always thought of myself as a reporter.

— Gwendolyn Brooks

As someone who has spent a lot of her career as an investigative reporter, I'll confess that a frustration of mine has always been…

— Jill Abramson

Every time I've had to do journalistic investigations, I've cursed, but later I discovered that it had helped me enormously with writing fiction. It's…

— Italo Calvino

Personally, as a print journalist, I always found the most interesting stories to be the ones hacks talked about in the bar after work.

— Nick Denton

I am a writer who happens to use some tools of journalism.

— Svetlana Alexievich

At the core of investigative journalism is exactly the same thing that drives a page-turning thriller: telling a great story.

— Hank Phillippi Ryan

I was so thrilled being a reporter, because it gave you the kind of access to people that you wouldn't ever get to meet.

— Tom Stoppard