Reporter Quote by Jeannette Walls

I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a reporter. I don't know where I got the idea that it was…

— Charles Kuralt

“Everybody wants to talk about themselves, and everybody wants to hear everybody else's story, so we take turns playing reporter and celebrity.”

— Ryu Murakami

“My fellow journalists called themselves correspondents; I preferred the title of reporter. I wrote what I saw. I took no action-even an opinion is…

— Graham Greene

“It seemed that the media pretty much controlled how the average person perceived the situation. We had little respect for journalists. Throughout my career,…

— Duncan Falconer

“It was journalism at its best: irreverent, mischievous and beholden to no one.”

— Toby Young

“He thought I’d be his best reporter, said I had a surprising mind. In my two years on the job I’d consistently fallen short…

— Gillian Flynn

“that overeager reporters would somehow”

— Anthony Flacco

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

“Reporters would just use the most interesting (and, usually, unhelpful) sound bites in my lengthy responses to their questions, instead of writing about the…

— Al Franken

I've always thought of myself as a reporter.

— Gwendolyn Brooks

“My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people tend to…

— Joan Didion

“Interviews were invented to make journalism less passive. Instead of waiting for something to happen, journalists ask someone what should or could happen.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana