Columnists Quotes - Page 5

• Having whipped single women into high marital panic-or "nuptialitis," as one columnist called it- the press hastened to soothe fretted brows with conjugal tonic.

  Susan Faludi

  Marriage, Panic, Single Women

  Susan Faludi (1991). “Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women”

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• There's a nastiness out there that wants to harm me with words. These are my enemies - the ideologues, the populists, the columnists who don't like the fact that I take them on toe-to-toe. What I try to do is tell the truth. It's not the coin of the realm in politics.

  Ed Koch

  Enemy, Trying, Want

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• I majored in journalism at Arizona State University, where I began writing the columns I write now, but I cannot, in good conscience, refer to myself as a writer. I'm a columnist, maybe a journalist, I guess I'm an author, but writer... no. That's not up to me to call myself, that's rather lofty. It's for the reader to decide.

  Laurie Notaro

  Writing, Arizona, Journalism

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• Do not be taken in by 'insiderisms.' Fledgling columnists, eager to impress readers with their grasp of journalistic jargon, are drawn to such arcane spellings as 'lede.' Where they lede, do not follow.

  William Safire

  Taken, Jargon, Arcane

  "How to Read a Column" by William Safire, www.nytimes.com. January 24, 2005.

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• The wonderful thing about being a New York Times columnist is that it's like a Supreme Court appointment - they're stuck with you for a long time.

  William Safire

  New York, Long, Wonderful

  "William Safire dies at 79; speechwriter and Pulitzer-winning columnist" by Joe Holley, www.latimes.com. September 28, 2009.

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• There were reprints of American editorials. Liberals saw it as a resurgence of social protest and decried the discrimination, poverty, and hunger that had provoked it. Conservative columnists acidly pointed out that hungry people don't steal stereo systems first and called for a crackdown in law enforcement. All of the reasoned editorials sounded hollow in light of the perverse randomness of the event. It was as if only a thin wall of electric lighting protected the great cities of the world from total barbarism.

  Dan Simmons

  Wall, Light, Law

  Dan Simmons (2014). “Song of Kali”, p.110, Open Road Media

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• One of the issues that we professional newspaper columnists are required by union regulations to voice grave concern about is the federal budget deficit, which we refer to as the "mounting" deficit, because every extra word helps when you have to produce a certain number of gravely concerned newsprint inches.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Voice, Numbers

  Dave Barry (1989). “Dave Barry's Greatest Hits”, Ballantine Books

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• But that's kind of an easy stance to be if you're a humor columnist, because you're tending to make fun of the government and the powerful. I'm sort of a soft-core libertarian in that my compass is generally pointing away from 'Let's let the government do this' Does it matter to me that it's Democrats who think we need more elaborate programs that involve shifting money from one group to another group or it's Republicans saying we need to take a harder look at what kinds of things people are watching on cable TV? Neither one of those things strikes me as a good idea.

  Dave Barry

  Fun, Powerful, Thinking

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• Leonard Pitts, Jr. is the most insightful and inspiring columnist of his generation.

  Tavis Smiley

  Insightful, Generations

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• I don't have to work extra hard, but that's because there are a lot of women in my professional network and I have hired a lot of women as full-time writers and part-time columnists.

  Ann Friedman

  Extras, Part Time, Hard

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I do feel haunted by some of the letters and the suffering people have endured. But I keep in mind that the people who write to me know that I am a journalist and an on-line advice columnist, not a social service professional.

  Emily Yoffe

  Writing, People, Advice

  "Your Infinite Capacity to Amaze Me" by Emily Yoffe, www.slate.com. June 9, 2014.

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• Every year, hundreds of thousands of people try their hand at this demanding profession (humor columnist). After a few months, almost all of them have given up and gone back to the ninth grade.

  Dave Barry

  Hands, Years, People

  Dave Barry (2011). “Dave Barry Is Not Taking This Sitting Down”, p.15, Ballantine Books

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• I was Computer Shopper's linux columnist for more than half a decade, from the late 90s onwards. Yes, I know about Linux. (My first review of a Linux distro in the press was published in late 1996.)

  Charles Stross

  Half, Linux, Firsts

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• I don't watch the nightly newscasts on TV . . . nor do I watch the endless hours of people giving their opinion about things. I don't read the editorial pages; I don't read the columnists. It can be a frustrating experience to pay attention to somebody's false opinion.

  George W. Bush

  People, Giving, Watches

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• I have a CS degree and a history that includes working as a software developer and being a computer magazine columnist back during the 1990s. I guess I simply paid attention to the social effects of the IT revolution as I lived through it.

  Charles Stross

  Degrees, Attention, Magazines

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 02, 2012.

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• I don't do research for my novels. Obviously, in my other line of work as a reporter and a columnist, I've had the opportunity to get to know both social workers and TV talk-show hosts.

  Anna Quindlen

  Opportunity, Research, Lines

  Source: www.writersdigest.com

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• My agent pointed out one day that I had been quoted by a columnist in some American newspaper, and he noted with some glee that they simply identified me by name without reminding people who I was, apparently in the clear expectation that their readers would know who I am.

  Terry Pratchett

  Who I Am, Names, People

  Source: boingboing.net

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• Steinberg occupies a position that is very dear to those of us who've held it over the years: sports columnist at The Post. If all he wants to do is be popular--and I think Dan is better than that--then the readers of The Washington Post sports section won't be very well served. Telling readers how great they are as sports fans was never one of my priorities. The only thing worse than people who can't stand to hear an unpopular or unflattering opinion is those that are too afraid to state one.

  Michael Wilbon

  Sports, Thinking, Years

  Facebook post by Michael Wilbon, www.facebook.com. October 4, 2012.

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• By now, legions of tireless essayists and op-ed columnists have dressed feminists down for making such a fuss about entering the professions and earning equal pay that everyone's attention has been distracted from the important contributions of mothers working at home. This judgment presumes, of course, that prior to the resurgence of feminism in the '70s, housewives and mothers enjoyed wide recognition and honor. This was not exactly the case.

  Mary Blakely

  Mother, Home, Equal Pay

  Mary Kay Blakely (1995). “American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• A certain columnist has been banned from all Shubert openings. Now he can wait three days and go to their closings.

  Walter Winchell

  Art, Waiting, Entertainment

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• The upheavals [of artificial intelligence] can escalate quickly and become scarier and even cataclysmic,” the New York Times tech columnist once wrote. “Imagine how a medical robot, originally programmed to rid cancer, could conclude that the best way to obliterate cancer is to exterminate humans who are genetically prone to the disease.

  Jaron Lanier

  New York, Cancer, Robots

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• As [The Nation columnist Katha] Pollitt points out, when one starts looking beneath the surface of things and adding together the out-front atheists with the indifferent nonbelievers, you end up with a much larger group of people than Jews, Muslims, Buddhists and Unitarians put together.

  Natalie Angier

  Buddhist, Atheist, People

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• Being a TV comedian, actor, writer, columnist, and all that is quite helpful to me in acquiring wide varieties of knowledge, which is crucial for filmmaking.

  Takeshi Kitano

  Comedian, Actors, Tvs

  Source: www.avclub.com

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