Journalist Quotes - Page 35

• The right to be a journalist is part of the Bill of Rights.

  John C. Dvorak

  Rights, Politics, Bills

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• We have increasingly fewer and fewer journalists who have any military experience and understand what life is like in the military and in combat.

  Jim Lehrer

  Military, Life Is Like, Literature

  "Jim Lehrer on Billy Bob, Reports of Rain and Stenography As Journalism". Interview with Liz Cox Barrett, www.cjr.org. June 2, 2006.

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• See, I have no journalism in my background, so I wasn't practised at research or writing non-fiction, nor at handling the truth in a journalistic way. Journalists know when to call a halt and write something, but I kept on looking for answers.

  John Thomas Sladek

  Writing, Fiction, Research

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• The best discussion of trouble in boardroom and business office is found in newspapers' own financial pages and speeches by journalists in management jobs.

  Russell Baker

  Jobs, Office, Speech

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• A newspaper, as I'm sure you know, is a collection of supposedly true stories written down by writers who either saw them happen or talked to people who did. These writers are called journalists, and like telephone operators, butchers, ballerinas, and people who clean up after horses, journalists can sometimes make mistakes.

  Daniel Handler

  Horse, Mistake, Media

  "The Vile Village". Book by Daniel Handler, 2001.

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• I am a writer, a professional journalist with serious credentials in Crime, Craziness, and Politics. I have mingled with dangerous criminals and attended many trials . . . from Hell's Angels, Black Panthers and Chicano street fighters to Roxanne Pulitzer and even Richard Nixon, back in the good old days before he was run out of the White House for fraud, perjury, graft, and criminal negligence.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Running, Angel, White

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream”, p.275, Pan Macmillan

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• A person does feel sheepish picking on journalists, a class already so richly despised that if a planeload of them crashed in flames, most people would smile from pure reflex.

  Garrison Keillor

  Flames, Class, People

  Garrison Keillor (1994). “The Book of Guys: Stories”, Penguin Group USA

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• I'm not rational enough to be a good journalist.

  Jim Harrison

  Literature, Enough, Rational

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, themorningnews.org. June 7, 2004.

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• The responsibility that I feel is to do as good a job as a journalist as I can possibly do.

  Ted Koppel

  Jobs, Responsibility, Feels

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• My faith is in my colleagues. And when I meet other writers, journalists, who've been doing this for a long time, trying to make us aware of what it is that we're living in, I put my faith in those people.

  Barry Lopez

  Long, People, Trying

  Interview with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. April 30, 2010.

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• I always wanted to be a serious journalist.

  Jeannette Walls

  Serious, Wanted

  "Life in 'Glass Castle' only made Walls stronger" by Denise Hazlick, www.today.com. March 21, 2006.

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• People I meet today, especially journalists who interview me, are astonished to hear that Lenin told me, in effect, that Communism was not working and that the Revolution needed American capital and technical aid.

  Armand Hammer

  People, Today, Interviews

  Armand Hammer, Neil Lyndon (1988). “Hammer”, Perigee

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• Critics? Don't talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and failure, has anything worthwhile to say of art? I don't.

  Jonathan Raban

  Art, Thinking, Soul

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• I am a journalist in the field of etiquette. I try to find out what the most genteel people regularly do, what traditions they have discarded, what compromises they have made.

  Amy Vanderbilt

  People, Trying, Fields

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• I'm loath to use my personal life to promote what I do, but at the same time, I don't like a journalist going away with no more than you could get off Wikipedia, where most of it's invented anyway.

  Johnny Vegas

  Going Away, Wikipedia, Use

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• Before they're plumbers or writers or taxi drivers or unemployed or journalists, before everything else, men are men. Whether heterosexual or homosexual. The only difference is that some of them remind you of it as soon as you meet them, and others wait for a little while.

  Marguerite Duras

  Men, Differences, Waiting

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• If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year.

  A. N. Wilson

  Book, Writing, Years

  "AN Wilson: 'Everyone writes in Tolstoy's shadow'". Interview with William Skidelsky, www.theguardian.com. April 21, 2012.

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• We [journalists] tell the public which way the cat is jumping. The public will take care of the cat.

  Arthur Hays Sulzberger

  Cat, Jumping, Care

  On journalism, in 'Time' 8 May 1950

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• It is not astonishing that there are many journalists who have become human failures and worthless men. Rather, it is astonishing that, despite all this, this very stratum includes such a great number of valuable and quite genuine men, a fact that outsiders would not so easily guess.

  Max Weber

  Men, Numbers, Outsiders

  Max Weber (2013). “From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology”, p.99, Routledge

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• It had never occurred to us that the Kremlin's new anti-booze campaign would apply to journalists. Now, that's a human-rights violation.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Humorous, Russia

  P.J. O'Rourke (2012). “Holidays in Hell”, p.188, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I take it that a monograph of this sort belongs to the ephemera literature of science. The studied care which is warranted in the treatment of the more slowly moving branches of science would be out of place here. Rather with the pen of a journalist we must attempt to record a momentary phase of current thought, which may at any instant change with kaleidoscopic abruptness.

  Gilbert N. Lewis

  Moving, Science, Thinking

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• I am personally acquainted with hundreds of journalists, and the opinion of the majority of them would not be worth tuppence in private, but when they speak in print it is the newspaper that is talking (the pygmy scribe is not visible) and then their utterances shake the community like the thunders of prophecy.

  Mark Twain

  Media, Talking, Community

  Mark Twain (1992). “Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays: 1852-1890”

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• A woman journalist in England asked me why Americans usually wrote about their childhood and a past that happened only in imagination, why they never wrote about the present. This bothered me until I realized why - that a novelist wants to know how it comes out, that he can't be omnipotent writing a book about the present, particularly this one.

  John Steinbeck

  Book, Writing, Past

  John Steinbeck, Thomas Fensch (1988). “Conversations with John Steinbeck”, p.73, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• There is probably some long-standing "rule" among writers, journalists, and other word-mongers that says: "When you start stealing from your own work you're in bad trouble." And it may be true.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Writing, Long, May

  Hunter S. Thompson, Jann Wenner (2012). “Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson”, p.120, Simon and Schuster

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• Copywriters, journalists, mainstream authors, ghostwriters, bloggers and advertising creatives have as much right to think of themselves as good writers as academics, poets, or literary novelists.

  Sara Sheridan

  Writing, Thinking, Novelists

  "Opinion: literary and commercial writers should lay down their arms" by Sara Sheridan, www.theguardian.com. April 21, 2011.

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