Enough Quote by Norman Mailer

If you're a good journalist, you can probably be a good screenwriter or novelist. That skillset travels.

— Cord Jefferson

Too few journalists become screenwriters. I say to all the would-be screenwriters: Become journalists. And I’ll say to working journalists: Do not stay journalists.…

— Nora Ephron

Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more…

— Karl Kraus

“Journalist is not a profession; it is a trade. It can never rise to the status of a profession because journalists would have to…

— Dov Ivry

A person whose financial requirements are modest and whose curiosity, skepticism and indifference to reputation are outsized is a person at risk of becoming…

— Louis Menand

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

— Karl Kraus

I am old enough to think the word 'journalist' is not all that noble a designation. Journalist - that record keeper, quote taker and…

— Michael Wolff

You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.

— Margaret Atwood

I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive…

— J. Anthony Lukas

Journalism is a kind of profession, or craft, or racket, for people who never wanted to grow up and go out into the real…

— Harry Reasoner

Becoming a writer is not a 'career decision' like becoming a doctor or a policeman. You don't choose it so much as get chosen,…

— Paul Auster

No one put a gun to your head and ordered you to become a writer. One writes out of his own choice and must…

— Stanley Ellin