Historian Quote by Lawrence Wright

Journalism is not easy. It's the first rough draft. I don't think you need to wait around until you have the definitive thing. You…

— Harold Evans

It's a journalist's job to be a witness to history. We're not there to worry about ourselves. We're there to try and get as…

— Robert Fisk

I can only answer that I tried to tell the truth and, if not be objective, at least be fair; history is not served…

— Randy Shilts

Like other Americans, U.S. journalists have often neglected the study of history; they have much remedial work to do in trying to understand who…

— Henry Grunwald

I see myself as a journalist reporting neglected stories about our past and trying to bring rigor, reason and intuition to the quest.

— Graham Hancock

In the normal course of things, journalists want their story, and as soon as they are through with it, they pack their cameras and…

— Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

For too long, reporters for the big media outlets have been fixated on novelty, always moving too quickly onto the next big score or…

— Arianna Huffington

I do think people need to recognize that a lot of journalists want to write a story a certain way because the story will…

— Ray Dalio

There are journalists I share a whole history with, so I tend to be generous to these guys, but those days are over.

— Guus Hiddink

I think what drove me away from being a reporter was an inability to accept that the world came in neat stories. Every story…

— Terry Pratchett

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

“By focusing exclusively on the events of the day, journalism all but severs the connection between time and eternity. It makes the world appear…

— Craig M. Gay