Journalist Quotes

If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist. (Norman Mailer)
I became a journalist because I did not want to rely on newspapers for information. View quote
Christopher Hitchens
I had rather be called a journalist than an artist. View quote
H. G. Wells
I see myself as a journalist reporting neglected stories about our past and trying to bring rigor, reason and intuition to the quest. View quote
Graham Hancock
Now, practically all reviewers have academic aspirations. The people from the universities are used to a captive audience, but the literary journalist has to please his audience. View quote
V. S. Pritchett
When I was trained as a journalist, as a race-relations reporter in Nashville covering the end of the civil-rights movement, we were strictly forbidden to use the first-person pronoun. There was kind of an electric charge around it. To come out from hiding and use the word 'I' carried a lot of fright for me. View quote
Lawrence Wright
And I came away from that experience, and it was a very difficult experience - I came to understand that you have to practice at being a good father and practice at being a good husband, just as you have to practice at being a good journalist. View quote
Bob Schieffer
As a journalist I'm comfortable doing library research, and I did a lot! I had a fellowship at Radcliff for a year which gave me access to the Harvard system. View quote
Anita Diament
The life of a journalist is poor, nasty, brutish and short. So is his style. View quote
Stella Gibbons
We are hurtling back into a Soviet abyss, into an information vacuum that spells death from our own ignorance. All we have left is the internet, where information is still freely available. For the rest, if you want to go on working as a journalist, it's total servility to Putin. Otherwise, it can be death, the bullet, poison, or trial - whatever our special services, Putin's guard dogs, see fit. View quote
Anna Politkovskaya
If you're curious, you'll probably be a good journalist because we follow our curiosity like cats. (Diane Sawyer)
A good journalist is not the one that writes what people say, but the one that writes what he is supposed to write. View quote
Todor Zhivkov
Which ever one of you will want to become a journalist, let him remember to choose his own master: the reader. View quote
Indro Montanelli
There is a certain category of fool-the overeducated, the academic, the journalist, the newspaper reader, the mechanistic "scientist", the pseudo-empiricist, those endowed with what I call "epistemic arrogance", this wonderful ability to discount what they did not see, the unobserved. View quote
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The hired journalist, I thought, ought to realize that he is partly in the entertainment business and partly in the advertising business - advertising either goods, or a cause, or a government. He just has to make up his mind whom he wants to entertain, and what he wants to advertise. View quote
Claud Cockburn
I believe that I've been asked all possible questions. I, myself, if I were a journalist, would not know what to ask me. View quote
José Saramago
Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding. View quote
Kenneth Tynan
As a journalist, my job is to be dispassionate. Suddenly to be the centre of a story and to be crying, it made me feel very insecure. View quote
Natasha Kaplinsky
Just because you're a journalist you are not exempted from assassination, if you're a son of a bitch. Freedom of expression cannot help you if you have done something wrong...The constitution can no longer help you if you disrespect a person. View quote
Rodrigo Duterte
You cannot hope to bribe or twist, thank God! the British journalist. But, seeing what the man will do unbribed, there's no occasion to. View quote
Humbert Wolfe
English: Only a total idiot would think that a major channel is working to inform the audience. The channel sells product, it must be packaged. CNN, for example, is a colossal ideological tool in the West. An excellent example is the situation around Yugoslavia. How effectively a very civilized part of humankind was brainwashed! The question is in approaches. If a consumer "grubs" stale bread, nobody will offer him poppy-seed buns. I'm an absolutely engaged person. By myself. I have certain political views. I'm not a journalist. I practice political propaganda. I am a commentator, and if one comments on events without having one's own position, that's an unhealthy symptom. (Mikhail Leontyev)
Now I'm doing a film festival for kids and writing a script about a kidnapped journalist in Afghanistan. View quote
Olivia Wilde
Often there is a wall between the journalist and the star because there is usually not much time to get to know a person, and the star is always asked the same questions, and may be defensive. View quote
Ruud Gullit
I was never a true journalist, I was a movie critic. View quote
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
As a professional journalist who nonetheless champions a 'people's' Internet, I am happy to compete against the thousands of amateur bloggers out there reporting and commenting on the same stories I do. View quote
Douglas Rushkoff