Having sex Quote by Nora Ephron

Working as a journalist is exactly like being the wallflower at an orgy. I always seem to find myself at a perfectly wonderful event…

— Nora Ephron

Working as a journalist is exactly like being a wallflower at an orgy.

— Nora Ephron

“It was exciting in its own self-absorbed way, which is very much the essence of journalism: you truly believe that you are living at…

— Nora Ephron

Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.

— Russell Baker

“Everyone goes into journalism for different reasons—and they’re often idealistic ones.”

— Thomas L. Friedman

“The making of a journalist: no ideas and the ability to express them.”

— Karl Kraus

“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

“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”  ― Nora Ephron  ”

— Cecilia Randell

“At the back of my mind I wanted to be a journalist when I grew up since I didn’t seem to be getting any…

— Ian Colquhoun

“Journalists...chronicle our everyday lives. They reveal truths and information that the public deserves to know, and they provide a record for posterity, so that…

— Celeste Ng

Being a journalist seemed the ideal way of both having a job and experiencing the world, especially for anyone with a sense of adventure.

— Jackie Kennedy

“Being a writer is an important job because we bring emotion and imagination into a world filled with endless, inane chatter.”

— Jennifer Probst