Best 167 quotes in «journalist quotes» category

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.

When a state is afraid of the journalists, it means that that state is definitely doing some secret devilish things!

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".

A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.

Actually, I graduated from university as a journalist.

A journalist is a reporter out of a job.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

As a journalist, your job is to bear witness.

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

As journalists, we keep pushing and pushing.

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.

Best qualification for an aspiring journalist is curiosity.

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

Bad manners make a journalist.

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

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

Breaking news is the most masturbating thing journalists do.

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

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

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

Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 amused myself playing with the journalists.

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 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 don't believe in journalists having 'responsibility.'

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

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.

I feel that a documentarian has an obligation to tell the truth as he or she interprets it. And what I mean by that is that documentarians don't necessarily have the same sort of obligations that a journalist might have. A journalist might be called upon to be objective, whereas a documentarian is sort of forced to take sides.

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

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

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