Best 167 quotes in «journalist quotes» category

I'm really bad at describing my books. Journalists like to have things like "It's The Terminator Meets the Seven Dwarfs." And I can't do that with my books. If I could, I probably wouldn't write them.

I never intended to make a living from music. That's the funny thing. I wanted to be a journalist.

I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.

I see myself as a recovering journalist.

It is a depressing business talking to journalist.

I spend a lot of time talking to journalists.

I thought I wanted to be a journalist or a novelist.

It's not like that when you're a songwriter - songwriters aren't like pulp writers or journalists, even. You just follow the muse. It's called muse-ic. Whenever the muse decides to bestow her inspiration on the songwriter, then the song is born.

It is no good saying we [journalists] must report only what is true because what is true cannot always be proven.

It is not easy to stop brown envelope because journalists are part of the society

It was always amusing to be inside Apple and read what journalists said we were doing

I wanted to be a journalist, I thought it was glamorous and that I'd meet beautiful women in the rain.

I've definitely written people e-mails telling them I've loved their stories, but that seems more like a professional journalist thing to do.

I've had journalists beg me to please say something negative about my estate.

I've been a financial journalist for 30 years.

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.

I was once a journalist. And I think of myself as a journalist, and that's it. You tell the truth. I even wrote a book called 'The Truth'.

I was never a true journalist, I was a movie critic.

Journalists always like an excuse for why are they talking about something now when they didn't talk about something a week ago. They always like to say something is new.

Journalists are bigger terrorists than terrorists themselves.

Journalists are simply leftists disguised as reporters. They're political activists disguised as reporters.

Journalists cover words and delude themselves into thinking they have committed journalism.

Journalists prize independence - not teamwork.

Journalists told me that a talk show wouldn't work. Some told me I was going to get canceled before my first season was up.

Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it.

Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.

Journalists have made celebrities into an industry.

Journalists hold themselves apart, and above, the common person. They have rules designed to ensure their objectivity and impartiality.

Journalists often put things into either-or scenarios.

I worked for a brief spell as a journalist, but soon I discovered that I didn't want to be a journalist - I wanted to be a historian.

Journalists were killed because they defended freedom. Policemen were killed because they were protecting you. Jews were killed because they were Jewish.

Journalist: 'Have you received any death threats?' Harry Redknapp: 'Only from the wife when I didn't do the washing up!'.

Journalists have no choice but to fight back because if they don't, they will become irrelevant.

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.

Journalists are too poorly paid in this country to know anything that is fit for publication.

Most journalists now believe that a person's privacy zone gets smaller and smaller as the person becomes more and more powerful.

Many journalists now are no more than channelers and echoers of what Orwell called the official truth. They simply cipher and transmit lies. It really grieves me that so many of my fellow journalists can be so manipulated that they become really what the French describe as functionaires, functionaries, not journalists.

Most journalists expect me to answer all their questions about aliens and spaceships.

My belief is that "recluse" is a code word generated by journalists... meaning, "doesn't like to talk to reporters.

Never trust a journalist.

Never lose your sense of the superficial.

My mother was a journalist, so writing is not unnatural to me.

My whole model, from the beginning, was not to personally publish a single document. I provided these documents to journalists because I didn't want my biases to decide what's in the public interest and what is not.

Never trust a journalist unless she's your mother.

No news is good news. No journalists is even better.

No foundation that I am aware of has hired ex-journalists to promote a thoroughgoing inquiry.

No, there are no hard and fast rules about sources, no printed booklet to help journalists through.

Scepticism is a necessary and vital part of the journalist's toolkit. But when scepticism becomes cynicism it can close off thought and block the search for truth.

Our language has become a tired and inefficient thing in the hands of journalists and writers who have nothing to say.

Politicians are just Daily Mail journalists writ large, aren't they? They're always telling us what's going to happen, and we know they don't know!