Context Quote by Jason Calacanis

Everything in journalism is about the detail that makes the whole, the attempts to reproduce speech patterns while not actually quoting the whole thing…

— Neil Gaiman

As a journalist, your words are regularly read by lots of people, but they're not your words: they're someone else's. You're quoting people.

— Fiona Barton

It's a problem sometimes when you speak to journalists. They quote you, and then they read what they wrote, and then they even explain…

— Ehud Olmert

The biggest problem I have in journalism is being quoted or misquoted and then being asked to defend something I haven't said.

— Robert Fisk

I've been really upset sometimes when I've been misquoted. And it's the one thing they use in big print. Or it's taken out of…

— Daphne Guinness

Reporters covering Bushs second term, under pressure from editors not to use unnamed sources in their stories, started asking their sources if a background…

— Ari Fleischer

“Y’all reporters like my quotes, don’t you. Yeah, my quotes are Shaqalicious.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

You shouldn't presume that all quotes that are in a magazine or a newspaper are accurate.

— Andrew Card

Journalists cover words and delude themselves into thinking they have committed journalism.

— Hedrick Smith

Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that…

— Hesketh Pearson

To mis-quote is the very foundation of original style. The success of most writers is almost entirely due to continuous and courageous abuse of…

— Natalie Clifford Barney

Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.

— Adlai E. Stevenson