Air Quote by Rufus Choate

There are very few good ways to get publicity for a dictionary.

— Erin McKean

Newspapers. . . give us the bald, sordid, disgusting facts of life. They chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate, and with…

— Oscar Wilde

Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of…

— Joseph Addison

When newspapers are the principal vehicles of the wit and wisdom of a people, the higher graces of composition can hardly be looked for.

— Frances Trollope

“dictionary with unsaid words”

— milan kundera

Honestly, I don't read newspapers, magazines, whatever. They're just not part of my lexicon. I don't want to be manipulated, or manipulated about other…

— Madonna Ciccone

Newspapers write about other newspapers with circumspection, ... about themselves with awe, and only after mature reflection.

— A. J. Liebling

And what better way to get people talking than by creating a new word.

— Stephen Amell

Newspapers are so boring. How can you read a newspaper that starts with a 51-word lead sentence?

— Jimmy Breslin

In good writing, words become one with things.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The first word I would remove from the folklore of journalism is the word objective.

— W. Eugene Smith

In a newspaper, you only have so much room. It teaches you the value of getting to the point, of not pampering yourself with…

— Mitch Albom