Books Quote by William Safire

A good column is one that sells paper. It doesn't matter how beautifully it is written and how much you admire the author... if…

— Herb Caen

A column is a curiously intimate affair. For a start, you know by default that you will have regular readers, so it gives the…

— Monty Don

I write a syndicated column for The Washington Post that goes to about 200, 250 papers.

— Nat Hentoff

I write my columns pretty carefully.

— Bret Stephens

I tend to have a hard time working on pieces long before they're due. That's why I think the fact that I write a…

— James Surowiecki

I always got appreciation for the columns I wrote for newspapers.

— Divya Dutta

Line printer paper is strongest at the perforations.

— Dave Barry

The paper standard is self-destructive.

— Hans F. Sennholz

A newspaper is ten times more interesting when somebody across the table is reading it?

— Anonymous

Paper is always strongest at the perforations.

— Stephen Corry

Newspapers are so boring. How can you read a newspaper that starts with a 51-word lead sentence?

— Jimmy Breslin

Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column.

— Dave Barry