Authors Quote by Vikram Seth

Newspapers: dead trees with information smeared on them.

— Horizon

If publishers and editors exert themselves to keep certain topics out of print, it is not because they are frightened of prosecution but because…

— George Orwell

In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to…

— John Berger

“My experience with journalists authorize me to record that a very large number of them are ignorant, lazy, opinionated, intellectually dishonest, and inadequately supervised……

— Conrad Black

The newspaper journalists like to believe the worst; they can sell more papers that way, as one of them told me himself; for even…

— Margaret Atwood

“Struggling for survival and relevance, we as a profession of political journalists and commentators have collectively debased our craft to the lowest common denominator—writing…

— Kerry-Anne Walsh

I don't know why we said half the stuff that we did to journalists. It was almost as if we didn't think they were…

— Shaun Ryder

We have perhaps all said things in unguarded moments that we would not want printed in newspapers.

— John I. Jenkins

The tragedy of journalism is that these are people doing their best work.

— Tom Stoppard

Journalists are too poorly paid in this country to know anything that is fit for publication.

— George Bernard Shaw

It is not enough for journalists to see themselves as mere messengers without understanding the hidden agendas of the message and the myths that…

— John Pilger

That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.

— Gore Vidal