Desire Quote by Josephine Tey

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

— Thomas Jefferson

A day without newspapers is like walking around without your pants on.

— Jerry Coleman

Newspaper people, once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun, have of late lost all their gaiety, and small wonder.

— Russell Baker

“Since my adolescence I have read two and sometimes three newspapers a day, frequently clipping an article that for obscure and soon forgotten reasons…

— Russell Banks

One newspaper a day ought to be enough for anyone who still prefers to retain a little mental balance.

— Clifton Fadiman

“Every time I read a newspaper, recognizing by experience the real meaning of each word that has been omitted, I feel sad, and even…

— Mikhail Iossel

Instead, we were given a publication called the Weekly Reader, which was like a newspaper for four-foot illiterates.

— Chuck Klosterman

I still get my news from the newspaper in the morning. I just have an affection for paper, and that's no secret, I guess.

— Dave Eggers

I'm glad we haven't got newspapers now. It's been much nicer without them.

— Nevil Shute

I hoped my absence made them happy or at least made them forget that they weren't happy and never will be.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

For many years I was engaged in journalism, writing articles and chronicles for the daily press without ever joining the staff of any newspaper.

— Anonymous

But I do not remember ever having seen a newspaper in the house; and, most certainly, that privation did not render us less industrious,…

— William Cobbett