Journalist Quotes

The journalist should be on his guard against publishing what is false in taste or exceptionable in morals.

It is a depressing business talking to journalist.

The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.

I amused myself playing with the journalists.

I started writing when I was a journalist. But every time I sat down to write a novel or a story, I ended up writing about myself, which was incredibly annoying and self-involved.

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

Making stuff up is the worst thing a journalist can do. Plagiarizing is the second worst.

I'm not a journalist. So I didn't down and let Assad charm me. I didn't walk away and say "my god he's got an Apple computer and he really likes Beyonce so he must be a liberal."

A Writer says: read what I have written An historian says: listen to my lecture A critic says: listen to what I think A journalist says: let me tell you a story.

You know I take music seriously, right? So I expect journalists to take being a journalist seriously.

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

I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.

Which ever one of you will want to become a journalist, let him remember to choose his own master: the reader.

I was a very bad journalist. Awful. I would just invent everything. If I did an interview, I had a preconception of what that person should say and I would put my words in his mouth.

As a journalist, the details always tell the story.

I am not one of the great journalists of my time.

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

A journalist is stimulated by a deadline. He writes worse when he has time

A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand.

I was born in France. My father was a renowned French philosopher and journalist, and my mother was a painter. So I grew up in Parisian intellectual circles.

I was a scholarship minor public school day boy at Ardingly College and later Whitgift School. Then, straight into work as a journalist - a wonderful thing for a writer.

Working as a journalist is exactly like being a wallflower at an orgy.

To a journalist, good news is often not news at all.

A Hamas terrorist, a UN aid worker and a journalist walked into a Gaza hookah bar. And no one could tell who was who.

I'm afraid there's nothing we can do about the journalists; we can only hope that they will die off as the deerflies do towards the end of August.

To be a good sports journalist takes many things, but the main thing it takes is the ability to listen and follow your nose - see something, sense something and follow it.

The training of a journalist, of working with words for thousands of hours, is extraordinarily useful for a fiction writer.

I spend a lot of time talking to journalists.

I think it's like everything else; one shouldn't dig too deeply. It's silly to say that with a journalist, but sometimes there is not a truth to be found.

At school, a careers adviser asked me what I wanted to be, and I said 'fashion journalist,' so writing for 'Vogue' has provided me with the opportunity to fulfill a dream.

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

I am a very conservative journalist and prefer to write about what happened, and not what will happen.

As a Jew and a journalist I have my privileges, and if one doesn't work I use the other one.

I think these questions about what will happen are questions for activists and about the agency of people in the course of events. This is not a question for a journalist, but for activists.

We have to protect all journalists, and journalists have to be allowed to do their jobs.

Though I later found a career as a journalist and an essayist, fiction is my first love and I never left it, even though there was no easy way to make a living from it.

Would that it were so! ... That the American military were targeting journalists.

...I gave up on being a journalist - I thought having a point of view was more important than being objective.

I make friends faster and easier than journalists.

I went on a long trip through South America with Prince Charles where I was the only journalist there - a couple of photographers but no other writers.

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

There is no journalist without opinions, and there's no real objectivity, but we can strive toward it.

The judgment means a lot. As a journalist being accused of invading someone's privacy, there is always a risk that it will stick to your name.

If my name had not been cleared, it would have been difficult, perhaps impossible, to continue as a journalist.

Start with local press first. Start with people you know. Don't pitch every journalist.

I dont think I ever wanted to be a journalist - I was more interested in what comes from being a journalist.

Journalists love to show their compassion.

Don't pretend to be a journalist if you're not a journalist.

It might sound glib, but in a sense, as an actor Im a journalist and a psychologist recording life and truth.

There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians - they stay bought.