Columns Quote by Toby Young

I was nearly fired from my second job, which was writing press releases for Boston's public television station.

— Elinor Lipman

The first newspaper I worked on was the 'Springfield Union' in Springfield, Massachusetts. I wrote over a hundred letters to newspapers asking for work…

— Tom Wolfe

My first newspaper job was a high school reporter for the 'New York Daily News.'

— Stephen A. Smith

I've been getting pulled from newspapers for my entire career.

— Garry Trudeau

I was not very good at newspaper reporting. I'm just not quick enough, and I always tend to tell things as stories.

— David Grann

I started off as a journalist when I was young and I did not get paid unless I wrote three stories a day.

— Ryan Murphy

The first time I ever wrote anything, it was an editorial column for my high school newspaper.

— Nahnatchka Khan

The journalists have obviously failed to capture my innate magnetism, humour and charisma, and they all need to be fired from their newspapers right…

— Alexei Sayle

I've never worked for a newspaper. I've had some very bad reviews in newspapers.

— Truman Capote

So I became a newspaperman. I hated to do it but I couldnt find honest employment.

— Mark Twain

Harvey Publications hired me as a letterer, and they found out six seconds after I got the job that I couldn't letter. I still…

— Ernie Colon

It wasn't a direct route. I began as a freelance reporter. That's an important distinction, because people who rise through the ranks of The…

— Chris Hedges