Habits Quote by Pete Dexter

“The stories in books hate the stories in newspapers, David's mother would say. Newspaper stories were like newly caught fish, worthy of attention only…

— John Connolly

“Newspapers, of course, need both news and fanfare. A blending of gossip and truth.”

— Paul Tobin

“What a storyteller does is *see* more than most of us. We say he's making up his stories, but he—or better yet, *she*—watches more…

— Dean Hughes

“Well then, I'm going to tell you a secret almost every newspaper man and woman who's been at it awhile knows: in real life,…

— Stephen King

I often say that the best way to find a story is a one-inch brief in a local newspaper.

— David Grann

“For I aint, you must know,' said Betty, 'much of a hand at reading writing-hand, though I can read my Bible and most print.…

— Charles Dickens

“Short stories force us to keep our distance from the characters; novels bring us closer to them.”

— David Mikics

“Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment.”

— Charles Lamb

“The average newspaper, especially of the better sort, has the intelligence of a hillbilly evangelist, the courage of a rat, the fairness of a…

— H. L. Mencken

It is one of the paradoxes of journalism: The more servile a reporter is toward his sources, the more authoritative he can appear in…

— Andrew Ferguson

I know that obviously, that if you want to get the story, if you want to get close to somebody, if you want to…

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

A newspaper that is true to its purpose concerns itself not only with the way things are but with the way they ought to…

— Joseph Pulitzer