Circumstances Quote by Joseph Lelyveld

[I]n contrast to the common belief that they are the world's greatest cynics, the best journalists are the world's great idealists. They have experienced…

— Anna Quindlen

I was a lousy journalist. I could never be objective. Sometimes I invented the whole story.

— Isabel Allende

A journalist enjoys a privileged position. In exchange for not being able to participate in the rough-and-tumble issues of a community, we are given…

— Bill Kurtis

It is one of the paradoxes of journalism: The more servile a reporter is toward his sources, the more authoritative he can appear in…

— Andrew Ferguson

I've always thought of myself as a reporter.

— Gwendolyn Brooks

When some reporter intrudes on your life, it can be hard on you.

— James Toney

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

Everything is a narrative in life. I learned that early on as a reporter at the 'Washington Post.'

— Kara Swisher

“Breitbart’s genius was that he grasped better than anyone else what the early twentieth-century press barons understood—that most readers don’t approach the news as…

— Joshua Green

Well, one of the things I discovered in the course of looking back and writing about what I saw in my memory is that…

— Alma Guillermoprieto

For somebody who is a journalist, I can be awfully unobservant sometimes.

— Patricia Marx

“In this hypercompetitive media environment, editors and producers no longer have the patience—or the financial luxury—to allow journalists to develop their own expertise or…

— Thomas M. Nichols