Quote by Tom Rachman Download Open image ““Journalism is a bunch of dorks pretending to be alpha males.”” — Tom Rachman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Everyone goes into journalism for different reasons—and they’re often idealistic ones.” — Thomas L. Friedman Copy Share Image
“The press is a gang of cruel faggots. Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch-all for fuckoffs and misfits—a false doorway to the backside of life, a filthy piss-ridden little hole nailed off by the building inspector, but just deep enough for a wino to curl up from the sidewalk and masturbate like a… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share
“It was journalism at its best: irreverent, mischievous and beholden to no one.” — Toby Young Copy Share Image
“the essence of American journalism is vulgarity divested of truth.” — William Manchester Copy Share Image
“Journalism gave me another tool of exploration, another way of unveiling the laws that bound my body... And with journalism, I could directly ask… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“To be successful as a journalist, you must be curious and have a yearning for learning facts.” — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
“It seems your non-alpha man has had a change of heart about chasing your high-maintenance ass, after all.” — Andrea Smith Copy Share Image
“Do you know what a journalist is? Someone who hasn't written a novel yet.” — Lavie Tidhar Copy Share Image
“It’s the great flaw of journalism. The more something happens, the less newsworthy it is.” — Nathan Hill Copy Share Image
“Everybody wants to talk about themselves, and everybody wants to hear everybody else's story, so we take turns playing reporter and celebrity.” — Ryu Murakami Copy Share Image
“The thing about an Alpha, male or female, is that they can lead. When things get desperate they attack instead of retreat.” — Kristen Chandler Copy Share Image
At the outset, my notion of being a writer was that you would have moments of inspiration and moments of frustration, when you'd crumple… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
“He cannot deny a certain relief in being able to sift through academic tomes, fulfilling his journalistic duty without having to barge past security… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
My intent was to gain experience for fiction I eventually hoped to write. But there's no question I was drawn in by the hope… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
“I built and I built— heaven knows I have done that well. Those skyscrapers, full of tenants, floor after floor, and not a single… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
“What is wrong with guys? Half are molting; half are nothing but undergrowth.” — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
“What I really fear is time. That's the devil: whipping us on when we'd rather loll, so the present sprints by, impossible to grasp,… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
My parents used to rent old movies - my whole childhood is in black and white - and it was my dream to make… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
I went to the University of Toronto to study the history and theory of film, in the back of my mind thinking I'd go… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
The training of a journalist, of working with words for thousands of hours, is extraordinarily useful for a fiction writer. — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
During my past career as a journalist, I relished writing obits and equally dreaded phoning relatives for the necessary facts. But to my surprise… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
“Don't people drown their sorrows in things like scotch? Not strawberry whatever-it's-called.” — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
“Nothing epitomizes the futility of human striving quite like aspartame.” — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
