Apologizing Quote by Oscar Wilde

In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read…

— Oscar Wilde

The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it.

— Charles Colson

I've written on public matters, but I don't understand how anyone could tout me as a possible poet laureate when I wrote a poem…

— Tony Harrison

Go on thinking that you don't need to be read and you'll find that it may become quite true: no one will feel the…

— Dylan Thomas

So much of what I say gets sensationalized and journalists have to report on scandal because that's what people are hungry to read about.

— Megan Fox

The fact is that in a way, journalists become a kind of default in the system when you don't have substantive two-party back-and-forth inside…

— Ron Suskind

In Washington journalists can afford to live almost as well as people who work for a living.

— P. J. O'Rourke

The key for me with historical characters is they're interesting because they're human beings. A little bit of Hemingway goes a long way here,…

— Michael Hirst

“Are you a journalist?” “I’m a doctor.” “Good. We need doctors, Wallahi .” Sadoon scowled. “Journalists only tell lies and smuggle carpets.”

— Leslie Cockburn

Compared with other Americans, journalists are more likely to live in upscale neighborhoods, have maids, own Mercedes and trade stocks, and less likely to…

— John Leo

Lawyers tend to be bright people. They tend to be-much more than many journalists I've encountered-sticklers for detail and accuracy, and they have a…

— Ann Coulter

Foreign journalists have to have an approved interpreter assigned them, which they have to pay for, who also acts as guide. As an Iranian,…

— Hooman Majd