Best 167 quotes in «journalist quotes» category

You need to know the constituency you belong to...and that is revealed by your constituents. When your constituents are speaking in public and making of stories, your constituency can be "journalism".

Yet I am incapable of writing the only kind of novel which interests me: a book powered with an intellectual or moral passion strong enough to create order, to create a new way of looking at life. It is because I am too diffused. I have decided never to write another novel. I have fifty 'subjects' I could write about; and they would be competent enough. If there is one thing we can be sure of, it is that competent and informative novels will continue to pour from the publishing houses. I have only one, and the least important, of the qualities necessary to write at all, and that is curiosity. It is the curiosity of the journalist.

A historian is often only a journalist facing backwards.

Actually, I graduated from university as a journalist.

A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.

A journalist is a reporter out of a job.

A journalist finds out things by asking questions of people who know.

And I wasn't a journalist any more than I was a trained nurse.

And it's a necessity [for journalists] to pretend to be competent on every subject, some of which they really do not understand. They are under that necessity, I regret; I'm sorry for them. But to pretend to understand all the things you write about, and habitually to write about things you do not understand, is a very corrupting thing.

As journalists, we keep pushing and pushing.

An erudite is someone who displays less than he knows; a journalist or consultant the opposite.

As a journalist, one tends to think there's nothing off limits

As a journalist, your job is to bear witness.

Angry and frustrated, the journalists set about making bricks without straw.

Any journalist worth his or her salt wouldn't trust me.

As a journalist, you sort of grind away, taking rejections as they come, building on whatever advances you've achieved.

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

As I've gotten older, I've realized that things are a lot more permeable. It's not so black and white: not every journalist is a jerk.

Breaking news is the most masturbating thing journalists do.

Bad things don't happen to writers; it's all material.

Bad manners make a journalist.

a writer must always tell the truth (unless he's a journalist)

Best qualification for an aspiring journalist is curiosity.

But the time has come for journalists to acknowledge that a zone of privacy does exist.

David Carr was one of the most gifted journalists who has ever worked at The New York Times.

But unfortunately, I have to say, one out of every 100 interviews I do, I get a real journalist

Deep in my heart it still feels like I'm a journalist even though I haven't worked for a paper and carried a press pass for 14 years.

Everybody comes to the journalist with an agenda.

Don't call me a journalist; I hate the word. It's pretentious!

Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible.

Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.

For some people it's real therapy to talk to journalists about their private lives and inner thoughts. But I would rather keep something to myself.

Every poll shows that most journalists are Democrats.

I don't believe in journalists having 'responsibility.'

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

I amused myself playing with the journalists.

I definitely care about how the concept of New York punk was constructed, and why it mattered. But I wasn't gonna do that. Partly because I'm not a great journalist...

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.

I am being ripped off, because I've never lied to the press. Just as much truth I bring to my work, a journalist should bring that much truth to their work.

I am incredibly proud of the many journalists I have worked with throughout my career and the great campaigns that we have fought and won.

I am sensitive to the value of faith and religion and spirituality in people's lives because I'm a journalist.

I became a journalist partly so that I wouldn't ever have to rely on the press for my information.

I don't believe any Western journalists, quite frankly. I believe they're liars until proven otherwise.

I dont claim to be a journalist. I hold myself to higher standards of transparency and disclosure.

If a journalist calls you a racist, chances are, all other journalists will call you a racist.

I don't think journalists should talk about whom they're voting for.

I'd rather [the collection] have no title. Journalists like titles. That's why I give them to you.

I got here when I was 12, I found out I was undocumented when I was 16, I became a journalist when I was 17, and all I ever did was write other stories to run away from myself.

If you consider the great journalists in history, you don't see too many objective journalists on that list.

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.