Columnists Quote by Leon Panetta

It's kind of hard to spend long hours trying to help people and then find out that the favorite game of the columnist is…

— Bill Scott

A little irreverence is always important to being a columnist. I try to do that.

— Lewis Grizzard

The best way to get thrown out of the columnists' club is to be uncertain about anything whatsoever on this earth.

— Eric Sevareid

Don't commit to being a columnist unless you're willing to do it right. Report your behind off, so you have something original and useful…

— Allan Sloan

I don't know any other columnists, and I don't know what they do. I work the single! And nobody does what I do, anyway.

— Jimmy Breslin

I find having a column a very difficult form of journalism. I'm not a natural like Tom Friedman and Anna Quindlen.

— Maureen Dowd

There are a lot of columnists who get out and opine.

— David E. Sanger

If you're doing a column, you kind of have to. Like in the back of Sports Illustrated, Rick Reilly has to find something to…

— P. J. O'Rourke

I always thought of myself as more of a columnist, but maybe a columnist who does reporting.

— John Gruber

As the saying goes: "If you're not part of the solution, you're a newspaper columnist."

— Dave Barry

Our most noted satirists are true columnists, and their opinions can be worth more than any well-documented expose.

— Umberto Eco

High-profile columnists should remember they are in a privileged position. Writing isn't a dreadfully specific skill - it's taught to millions via our schooling…

— Rob Manuel