Things Quote by Ross Douthat

I always got appreciation for the columns I wrote for newspapers.

— Divya Dutta

The newspapers, I perceive, devote some of their columns specially to politics or government without charge; and this, one would say, is all that…

— Henry David Thoreau

I write a syndicated column for The Washington Post that goes to about 200, 250 papers.

— Nat Hentoff

I find having a column a very difficult form of journalism. I'm not a natural like Tom Friedman and Anna Quindlen.

— Maureen Dowd

Don't commit to being a columnist unless you're willing to do it right. Report your behind off, so you have something original and useful…

— Allan Sloan

A little irreverence is always important to being a columnist. I try to do that.

— Lewis Grizzard

In journalism, I have done many a bad report. Some have been exceptionally terrible.

— Ravish Kumar

Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column.

— Dave Barry

To be completely cured of newspapers, spend a year reading the previous week's newspapers.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

What I wound up doing, which I think is really journalistically dubious, is changing the order of some of the things I did, so…

— Joel Stein

“A newspaper that wishes to make its fortune should never waste its columns and weary its readers by praising anything.”

— Anthony Trollope

It's kind of hard to spend long hours trying to help people and then find out that the favorite game of the columnist is…

— Bill Scott