Journalist Quotes

I think that - not just as a journalist but as a human being - I have the ethical responsibility to avoid actions that can harm innocent people.

For much of my life as a journalist, I've viewed myself as being embedded with civilians and with those people who live on the other side of the barrel of a gun.

I'm not strong-willed enough or unkind enough... or maybe simply not wise enough to tell a journalist that a subject is out of bounds.

I am responsible for the team and a journalist should be responsible for his article.

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

You have to go where the story is to report on it. As a journalist, you're essentially running to things that other people are running away from.

There is a type of snobbish, pompous journalist who thinks that the only news that has any validity is war, famine, pestilence or politics. I don’t come from that school.

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

The French Revolution gave birth to no artists but only to a great journalist, Desmoulins, and to an under-the-counter writer, Sade. The only poet of the times was the guillotine.

I had an American journalist say to me, "Is it true you wrote the whole of the first novel on napkins?" I was tempted to say, "On teabags, I used to save them.

As a journalist, or an anthropologist, the convention is that people are there for you to study, and they are your objects.

I wait for death and journalists.

I can't remember a single occasion when I have been kind to a journalist.

I think [Dalai Lama]is far and away the most solid, deep-thinking, far-sighted politician I've met, and I've been a journalist for 26 years for Time magazine, so I've met a lot of politicians.

A journalist is a grumbler, a censurer, a giver of advice, a regent of sovereigns, a tutor of nations. Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

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

I once told a journalist that girls call me 'Kitten,' but I couldn't have been more sarcastic, and no matter how many times I've said that it was a joke, it still doesn't go away.

Becoming a politician is the only step down I could take from being a journalist.

If you're curious, you'll probably be a good journalist because we follow our curiosity like cats.

Every good journalist is aware that his trade may one day go the way of phrenology-and, what's more, the population will hardly protest the extinction.

I was happy being a journalist. I didn't realize losing my job, my identity went with it.

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.

I have been fiercely private, in part because I could never understand how a journalist could be otherwise. I was also the mother of small children, and security concerns were paramount.

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!

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.

Too few journalists become screenwriters. I say to all the would-be screenwriters: Become journalists. And I’ll say to working journalists: Do not stay journalists. Become screenwriters.

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

I hesitate to say what the functions of the modern journalist may be, but I imagine that they do not exclude the intelligent anticipation of the facts even before they occur.

The journalist, whose main duty is speed, is likely sometimes to get an advantage over the diplomatist whose main object is accuracy.

Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.

Scepticism is as important for a good journalist as it is for a good scientist.

I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.

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.

Journalists have made celebrities into an industry.

The duty of a journalist is the duty of a watchman.

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

Best I can do for them is to give them every piece of information I can find and let them make the judgments. That's just my basic view of my function as a journalist.

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

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.

I'm not rational enough to be a good journalist.

I think if you look at the failure of journalism in the modern age, then I don't want to be called a journalist.

Beheading, burying and burning humans alive are extreme acts of cruelty. Such crimes against humanity must be investigated and the guilty parties brought to justice. May ALL victims rest in peace!

I think for a young journalist, it's better to write for the Web at the moment than it is for print

Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.

A good journalist is not the one that writes what people say, but the one that writes what he is supposed to write.

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

The responsibility that I feel is to do as good a job as a journalist as I can possibly do.

I've been a financial journalist for 30 years.

As a journalist, it is so easy to get hardened when you see so many stories that are disturbing. Sometimes it's just your survival mechanism that makes you hardened to some of it.

I like roundtables because you can talk more directly to people. And you also can get kind of a vibe on what a journalist's take is on something, and have a conversation with them more.