Journalist Quotes - Page 6

• If publishers and editors exert themselves to keep certain topics out of print, it is not because they are frightened of prosecution but because they are frightened of public opinion. In this country intellectual cowardice is the worst enemy a writer or journalist has to face, and that fact does not seem to me to have had the discussion it deserves.

  George Orwell

  Country, Worst Enemy, Editors

  George Orwell (2009). “Animal Farm: A Fairy Story”, p.206, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Being a famous print journalist is like being the best-dressed woman on radio.

  Robin Williams

  Radio, Being The Best, Print

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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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• The weirdest time is when I'm having to explain myself all day to journalists, and then I don't perform, so there's no release, just a lot of self-consciousness. Then what do you do with that at the end of the day? How do you release your brain from talking about yourself all day?

  Andrew Bird

  Talking, Self, Brain

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My master's degree was in journalism, but everything important I ever learned about being a journalist I learned on the job.

  Rebecca Mead

  Jobs, Important, Degrees

  "Ask the Author Live: Rebecca Mead". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. May 28, 2010.

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• Best qualification for an aspiring journalist is curiosity.

  Rebecca Mead

  Curiosity, Qualifications

  "Ask the Author Live: Rebecca Mead". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. May 28, 2010.

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• When people watch me on TV they see part of my life. I wanted to let them know the real me behind the scenes. The child who was a concert violinist from the age of six. The young woman who took on the challenge to compete in the Miss America pageant. The television journalist for twenty-five years. The mother of two who, just like most women, struggles to balance work and family.

  Gretchen Carlson

  Mother, Children, Real

  "'Getting Real' with Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. July 15, 2015.

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• Trust is the most important aspect of being a journalist. If people don't trust or find you relatable - you will not have success.

  Gretchen Carlson

  People, Important, Aspect

  "'Getting Real' with Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• Comic scripts are full-on collaborations, not only with your artist, but your editors and colorists and letterers and PR folks, etc. Writing comics reminds me of my days as a journalist, working on a staff of fun, smart people.

  Duane Swierczynski

  Fun, Smart, Writing

  "Crime novelist Duane Swierczynski on shedding the Spanx for noir in the new BLACK HOOD #1". Interview with Donna Dickens, uproxx.com. January 28, 2015.

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• I like my job and I want to do well at it but I think there's much more integrity to being a journalist maybe than being an actor.

  Jessica Lucas

  Jobs, Integrity, Thinking

  Source: www.hitfix.com

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• Journalists don't retire, writers don't retire. I'm still hoping for that other big story. There's always one just around the corner.

  Phillip Knightley

  Stories, Bigs, Retiring

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• We don't have the Democrats doing a Fox News debate. They have decided they want to boycott Fox News, at least this election cycle. I don't see Hillary and Bernie Sanders doing a Fox News debate. And they should. We have great journalists on this network. I'm an opinion person. It wouldn't be me - that I think would do a great job. But if they're not going to put themselves in an environment like this, do you have to now reconsider, in other words, going forward, that maybe these liberal networks don't deserve the access to these candidates?

  Sean Hannity

  Jobs, Thinking, Foxes

  "RNC chair blasts CNBC's 'crap sandwich' debate; Bush, Kasich call out GOP rivals". "The Hannity Show", www.foxnews.com. October 29, 2015.

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• I came to Paul at quite an early age, having already studied Plato and Aristotle; and I found Paul easily their intellectual equal, though he was handling these amazing questions about God, Jesus, Israel, faith and so on. He continues to be an amazingly stimulating thinker, especially when we try to understand the flow of thought in letter after letter rather than just combing him for a few verses on 'our favourite topics', which, sadly, some Christian teachers do just as some journalists and broadcasters do!

  N. T. Wright

  Christian, Teacher, Jesus

  Source: kenwytsma.com

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• Journalists are divided into two groups: those who live by ethics, and those who don't.

  Manfred Gerstenfeld

  Two, Groups, Ethics

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I am not a new journalist, whatever that is. I just sit here at the typewriter and bang away at the old forms.

  Nora Ephron

  Typewriters, Bangs, Form

  Nora Ephron (2011). “Wallflower at the Orgy”, p.12, Bantam

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• Working as a journalist is exactly like being the wallflower at an orgy. I always seem to find myself at a perfectly wonderful event where everyone else is having a marvelous time, laughing merrily, eating, drinking, having sex in the back room, and I am standing on the side taking notes on it all.

  Nora Ephron

  Sex, Drinking, Laughing

  Nora Ephron (2011). “Wallflower at the Orgy”, p.13, Bantam

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• National security is a really big problem for journalists, because no journalist worth his salt wants to endanger the national security, but the law talks about anyone who endangers the security of the United States is going to go to jail. So, here you are, especially in the Pentagon. Some guy tells you something. He says that's a national security matter. Well, you're supposed to tremble and get scared and it never, almost never means the security of the national government. More likely to mean the security or the personal happiness of the guy who is telling you something.

  Ben Bradlee

  Mean, Jail, Government

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• Whatever it is, if you draw, you paint, you're a carpenter, you play football, the more you do it, you're a journalist, the more stories you write, the more people you interview and navigate your way through these different personalities to get your story, the better you're going to get at it. Acting's no different.

  Tom Sizemore

  Football, Writing, Play

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• All too many journalists seem to mistake scandal mongering for tenacious investigation, and far too many aspire to make themselves the story.

  Laurie Garrett

  Mistake, Scandal, Stories

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• France: As a professional journalist, I like the idea of a society where it is considered an acceptable occupation to basically sit around and drink.

  Dave Barry

  Ideas, Occupation, France

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• As a professional journalist, I am always looking for new ways to get paid for being motionless.

  Dave Barry

  Way, New Ways, Paid

  Dave Barry (2009). “Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus”, p.99, Ballantine Books

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• I've had more misrepresentations than I can handle, and people have told the wickedest lies about me. A lot of them have taken their frustrations out on me, and I don't like that because it can wound. Not necessarily me, but those around me. Journalists can be so bad.

  Grace Jones

  Lying, Taken, Frustration

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• To foment grievance and to set men at variance is the trade by which agitators thrive and journalists make money.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Men, Making Money, Grievance

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• How do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists, then believe what they read.

  Karl Kraus

  War, Lying, Believe

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• What I love most about Norway is you ladies. Back home I'm used to fat and hairy women journalists.

  Diego Maradona

  Home, Norway, Used

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