Day Quote by Rebecca Front

There's always a danger of writers believing their own publicity. We live in a world of puff and solicited blurb, a world of favours…

— Michael Longley

All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we seeourselves;…

— Moliere

All of depiction is fiction, it's only a question of degree. When we think of images, such as the signing of the declaration of…

— Titus Kaphar

“It is the one great weakness of journalism as a picture of our modern existence, that it must be a picture made up entirely…

— G.K. Chesterton

For some people, an event happens and they are thrown into a tabloid feeding ground.

— Clive Owen

“The media are less a window on reality, than a stage on which officials and journalists perform self-scripted, self-serving fictions.”

— Thomas Sowell

Political satire is a serious thing. In democratic newspapers throughout the world there are daily cartoons that often are not even funny, as is…

— Umberto Eco

In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it difficult to concoct a situation so bizarre…

— Calvin Trillin

Will posterity believe that, while the Press has swarmed with inflammatory productions that tend to prove the blessing of theoretical confusion and speculative licentiousness,…

— Arthur Young

There is too much illustrating of the news these days. I look at many editorial cartoons and I don't know what the cartoonists are…

— Paul Conrad

People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect it to be entertaining, they expect it to be true.

— Lewis H. Lapham

The image that fiction presents is purged of the distractions, confusions and accidents of ordinary life.

— Robert Penn Warren