Books Quote by Seno Gumira Ajidarma

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

— Oscar Wilde

Literature is news that stays news.

— Ezra Pound

Truth is stranger than nonfiction. And life is too interesting to be left to journalists. People have stories, but journalists have 'takes,' and it's…

— Walter Kirn

a writer must always tell the truth (unless he's a journalist)

— Gore Vidal

I think facts and truth are essential to journalism but you need to reckon with emotion. You have to deal with how people feel,…

— Lydia Polgreen

Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault

— Henry Anatole Grunwald

Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can't reach.

— Hunter S. Thompson

Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of…

— Henry Anatole Grunwald

In journalism just one fact that is false prejudices the entire work. In contrast, in fiction one single fact that is true gives legitimacy…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The more readings a novel has, even contradictory, the better. In journalism, you talk about what you know; you have provided yourself with records,…

— Rosa Montero

Truth is the first thing that present-day literature lacks. The writer has drowned himself in lies, he is too accustomed to speak prudently, with…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

The writer's first job is not to have opinions but to tell the truth... and refuse to be an accomplice of lies and misinformation.…

— Susan Sontag