Journalism Quotes - Page 31

• Anyone that is able to put a high school film and gonzo journalism together, it's like, "Yes, please!"

  Zoe Kravitz

  School, Together, Able

  "Ezra Miller and Zoë Kravitz Exclusive Interview BEWARE THE GONZO". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 26, 2011.

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• Journalism, like democracy, is not something that is achieved. It is a work in progress, and not every day is as good as the last.

  John Maxwell Hamilton

  Democracy, Progress, Lasts

  "The Romance and Reality of Foreign Reporting". Interview with Jack Shafer, www.slate.com. December 29, 2009.

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• Being able to create your own work, being able to indulge your own fantasies is so much better than journalism, so much more fulfilling than journalism, to me, that as long as I can continue to write fiction, I shall.

  Tom Robbins

  Writing, Long, Fiction

  "Oral history interview with Tom Robbins". Interview with Martha Kingsbury, www.aaa.si.edu. March 3, 1984.

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• I have a passion for words. I love words. And I'm just learning and developing my skills for words. I do books and I do journalism and plays. I have a broad palette. I don't have a great eye for direction. I love working with actors and I work very well with them because I appreciate what they bring to the table. I'd never say never, of course, but I look at it and don't really fancy it. I want to try and master the word side of it first.

  Geoff Thompson

  Book, Passion, Eye

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The whole point to American journalism is what ought to be true is true.

  Gore Vidal

  Being True, Ought, Whole

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I would just like to see hip-hop journalism in general take a step up and match the artistry. There have been great writers in music who are the caliber of artist as a writer as the people that they're covering.

  Brother Ali

  Artist, People, Hip Hop

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Journalism is a way of voicing opinion, of participating in the political, social, or cultural debate.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Political, Way, Opinion

  "Interview With Mario Vargas Llosa". Interview with Katharyn Rodemann, www.texasmonthly.com. November 2002.

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• Journalism has been very important for me - for a long time I made my living as a journalist, and it also serves as a source of ideas. Many of the things I have written I would not have written without the experience of being a journalist.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Ideas, Long, Important

  "Interview With Mario Vargas Llosa". Interview with Katharyn Rodemann, www.texasmonthly.com. November 2002.

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• Among the reasons that you go into journalism, I suppose, are some rather idealistic, even foolish reasons. In my case one of the reasons was I wanted to explain how things really work, how political power really works.

  Robert Caro

  Political, Reason, Foolish

  "The Round Table: Fiction, Biography And The Use Of Power". Interview with Kurt Vonnegut, www.robertcaro.com. 1999.

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• As for documentary, it was a natural progression from my earlier career in journalism. The two media are connected, but of course making films is much more complicated, because you have image, sound and music to work with, not simply words.

  Nancy Kates

  Sound And Music, Media, Careers

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• But my point is that competitive eating is a real sport, and I considered taking it up. But when I thought about what this would mean sitting around for hours, stuffing my face with unhealthy food I realized it was basically the same thing as journalism.

  Dave Barry

  Sports, Real, Mean

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• Journalism has become the art of "intelligent anticipation of events."

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Art, Intelligent, Events

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• The sole aim of journalism should be service.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Should, Sole, Aim

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.262, Rajpal & Sons

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• Journalism should never be prostituted for selfish ends or for the sake of merely earning a livelihood or, worse still, for amassing money.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Selfish, Sake, Earning

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• Journalism has a distinct place in familiarizing and expressing public opinion.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Public Opinion, Opinion

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• A journalist's peculiar function is to read the mind of the country and to give definite and fearless expression to that mind.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Country, Expression, Giving

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Lying, Calumny, Plague

  Mahatma Gandhi, U. R. Rao (1963). “The Way to Communal Harmony”, Ahmedabad, [India] : Navajivan Publishing House

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• Newspapers today have almost replaced the Bible, the Koran, the Gita and other religious scriptures.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Religious, Gita, Today

  Mahatma Gandhi, U. R. Rao (1963). “The Way to Communal Harmony”, Ahmedabad, [India] : Navajivan Publishing House

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• I was never interested in the two-party system per se. I was interested in how authority was abused by government, and how lies were told, and rewritten, to seem to be true. I came up out of a tradition of radical journalism.

  Jules Feiffer

  Lying, Party, Government

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. July 28, 2008.

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• I don't really like the way that journalism works in the UK anyway; it's all about getting the most shocking thing out of somebody and kind of twisting people's words, which isn't really journalism, as far as I'm concerned.

  Lily Allen

  People, Way, Kind

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, music.avclub.com. February 14, 2007.

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• I couldn't think about novels at all. It seemed the only writing that was appropriate to that horrendous event was journalism, reportage. And, in fact, I think the profession rose quite honorably to the task. Novelists require a slower turnover, I mean, in time.

  Ian Mcewan

  Writing, Mean, Thinking

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• In general, science journalism concerns itself with what has been published in a handful of peer-reviewed journals - Nature, Cell, The New England Journal of Medicine - which set the agenda.

  Michael Pollan

  Cells, Medicine, Peers

  "Food Chains, Dead Zones, and Licensed Journalism". Interview with Russell Schoch, www.motherjones.com. February 4, 2005.

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• Journalism kills you, but it keeps you alive as long as you're doing it.

  Horace Greeley

  Long, Alive

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• Journalism is not a profession, but a mission.

  Benito Mussolini

  Missions, Profession

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• Journalism has not only its social stimulations but its aesthetic virtues. An invitation into print, from however suspect a source, is an opportunity to make something beautiful, to discover within oneself a treasure that would otherwise have remained buried.

  John Updike

  Beautiful, Opportunity, Treasure

  "More Matter" by John Updike, www.nytimes.com. 1999.

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