Books Quote by Waverley Root

“Any writer or journalist who wants to retain his integrity finds himself thwarted by the general drift of society rather than by active persecution.…

— George Orwell

Journalism is "a low trade and a habit worse than heroin, a strange seedy world of misfits and drunkards and failures.

— Hunter S. Thompson

The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry…

— A. J. Liebling

Evidently there are plenty of people in journalism who have neither got what they liked nor quite grown to like what they get. They…

— Claud Cockburn

I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.

— Marguerite Duras

Journalism is literature in a hurry.

— Matthew Arnold

Journalism is straying into entertainment.

— Drew Curtis

It's been said that no man is a hero to a newspaperman, and I spent too many years as an ink-stained wretch.

— David Simon

The newspaperman has become a walking plague. He spreads the contagion of lies and calumnies.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry…

— A. J. Liebling

“The shoddy writer wants only publication. He fails to recognize that almost anyone willing to devote between twelve and fourteen hours a day to…

— John Gardner

The writer is driven by his conviction that some truths aren't arrived at so easily, that life is still full of mystery, that it…

— Don DeLillo