Journalist Quotes - Page 36

• An English journalist called Michael Viney told me when I was 25, that I would write well if I cared a lot what I was writing about. That worked. I went home that day and wrote about parents not understanding their children as well as we teachers did, and it was published the very next week.

  Maeve Binchy

  Teacher, Children, Home

  Interview With Sarah Kinson, www.theguardian.com. June 25, 2007.

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• It was when reporters became journalists and when objectivity gave way to searching for truth, that an aura of distrust and fear arose around the New Journalist.

  Georgie Anne Geyer

  Objectivity, Auras, Way

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• The dominant and most deep-dyed trait of the journalist is his timorousness. Where the novelist fearlessly plunges into the water of self-exposure, the journalist stands trembling on the shore in his beach robe. The journalist confines himself to the clean, gentlemanly work of exposing the grieves and shames of others.

  Janet Malcolm

  Beach, Grieving, Self

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• If you're a good journalist, what you do is live a lot of things vicariously, and report them for other people who want to live vicariously.

  Harry Reasoner

  People, Want, Reports

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• I always warn aspiring reporters to observe three basic rules: 1. Never trust an editor. 2. Never trust an editor. 3. Never trust an editor.

  Edna Buchanan

  Editors, Three, Never Trust

  Edna Buchanan (2009). “The Corpse Had a Familiar Face”, p.371, Simon and Schuster

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• I've said what I'm prepared to say in my poems, and then journalists think that you're going to tell them a whole lot more.

  Wendy Cope

  Thinking, Said, Prepared

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• My father was an engineer - he wasn't literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of the world's great readers. Every two weeks, he'd take me to our local branch library and pull books off the shelf for me, stacking them up in my arms - 'Have you read this? And this? And this?"

  Janet Fitch

  Father, Book, Two

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. September, 2006.

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• I'm not a journalist; I'm a poet. I had a discourse, an encounter with these people but I never had a list of questions.

  Werner Herzog

  Poet

  "Werner Herzog on death, danger and the end of the world". Interview with Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2012.

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• It's no mystery why many of us in the media can't get enough of the fabricators Jayson Blair and Stephen Glass, the latter of whom concocted more than a score of bogus feature stories for the New Republic (and who wrote for other magazines, including this one, once) in the mid-1990s. Anyone--journalist, student, academic--who has ever stared at a blank screen, their brains grinding emptiness, and thought, How can I fill this hole? knows that in those desperate moments before a deadline, almost anyone can do almost anything: make stuff up, plagiarize, scribble senseless half-truths.

  David Edelstein

  Glasses, Media, Brain

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• The one problem with the Internet for journalists who like doing long form is that any story that's going to involve 16 screens on the web page... that's asking a lot of people.

  Nancy Gibbs

  Long, People, Asking

  "Nancy Gibbs, Time Executive Editor: iPad May Rejuvenate Long-Form Magazine Journalism" by Danny Shea, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 30, 2010.

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• I like it when journalists are nice to me, and it's happening more and more.

  Ronnie Wood

  Nice, Happenings

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• I feel like, in some ways, I'm just a journalist.

  Nanci Griffith

  Way, Feels

  "Nanci Griffith finds her voice again". Interview with Quinn Brown, www.cnn.com. August 6, 2009.

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• The bad news for journalists today is that the media, however seriously people who are in the public eye take it, is not taken as seriously as it once was - by the public.

  Alastair Campbell

  Taken, Eye, Media

  "A crisis of credibility" by Alastair Campbell, www.theguardian.com. January 29, 2008.

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• At school, a careers adviser asked me what I wanted to be, and I said 'fashion journalist,' so writing for 'Vogue' has provided me with the opportunity to fulfill a dream.

  Alexa Chung

  Dream, Fashion, Writing

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. March 25, 2011.

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• I have respect for my fellow journalists at the other networks, and I wish them all well. This is a tough business, so good for them.

  Megyn Kelly

  Wish, Tough, Wells

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• We journalists are never so idiotic as when we analyze things that we shouldn't be analyzing.

  Joe Klein

  Analyzing, Idiotic

  "'Primary Colors' Author Joe Klein Talks About Political Truth and Fiction". "Crossfire" with Mary Matalin, Bill Press, www.cnn.com. May 2, 2000.

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• I'd probably still be a financial journalist now if it weren't for writing novels. Mmm. Fun! I'm much happier writing novels!

  Sophie Kinsella

  Fun, Writing, Financial

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• I never did any training in journalism or in finance, so I really was in the deep end. I got very good at going to press conferences and nodding. I'd figure it out when I got back to the office. Charts and numbers. I've never been great with facts, ever, my whole life. For a journalist, that's not a very good trait.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Numbers, Office, Training

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• As a journalist, I'm not supposed to be the subject, but as an author, I'm fair game - another ingredient in the media soup.

  Michael Azerrad

  Media, Games, Soup

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• I wanted to be a journalist for a long time.

  Jamie Bell

  Long, Wanted, Long Time

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• My life isn't much different than when I worked full time as a journalist.

  Linwood Barclay

  Different

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• I don't like journalists and I hardly ever talk to them.

  Mario Balotelli

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• My emotional and intellectual response to Hiroshima was that the question of the social responsibility of a journalist was posed with greater urgency than ever.

  Wilfred Burchett

  Responsibility, Emotional, Intellectual

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• My inclination, as an old-school, classically trained journalist, is not to go with a story unless I have it hard. It's not good enough to say something based on rumors that were flying around.

  Wolf Blitzer

  School, Not Good Enough, Flying

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• Sometimes when I speak to groups or I'm interviewed by a journalist, I ask them to imagine their communities without Girl Scouts - to imagine the thousands of food drives and clothing and toy collections that would never take place if not for Girl Scouts.

  Anna Maria Chavez

  Girl, Community, Groups

  "Girl Scouts Changed the World 100 Years Ago — Now it’s Our Turn" by Anna Maria Chavez, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 12, 2012.

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