Age Quote by Russell Baker

Writers obviously have to bear witness to the harsh face of the age.

— Alexander McCall Smith

“It was journalism at its best: irreverent, mischievous and beholden to no one.”

— Toby Young

On the whole, I think journalists have been kind about me, but they do make me sound a bit of a dreary cow. There…

— Sheila Hancock

I'm still an old-school reporter at heart. Writing fiction satisfies my journalistic need to hear and relay the testimony of everyday people at the…

— Karen Traviss

I don't know if I ever believed in the infallibility of a journalist's objectivity, but I definitely stopped flirting with the notion as a…

— Dana Loesch

As far as which writers embody this form of gentle power - Tobias Wolff, for sure. His persona and his writing both share an…

— George Saunders

Welcome to the decline of America where, in six short decades, we have gone from aspiring to judge a man by the content of…

— Will Cain

“Traditional journalism, where reporters deliver information in a balanced and unbiased fashion, is rapidly fading into obscurity. This is especially evident on television where…

— Lance Morcan

I had pictured journalism as I'd seen it in the most ennobling films, where the reporter battles for the truth, propelled by conviction, and…

— Tom Rachman

I was raised by a formidable woman. She always pushed me to be competitive in a man's world. That's maybe one of the attractions…

— Maria Shriver

The journalist confines himself to the clean, gentlemanly work of exposing the griefs and shames of others.

— Janet Malcolm

There are a lot of reporters who I feel are a lot more courageous and fool-hardy than I am. Maybe at the top I'd…

— Lawrence Wright