Paul Fussell Quotes

What someone doesn't want you to publish is journalism; all else is publicity.

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• I guess I went into journalism to save the world. I always felt through writing that I wanted to rotate the world slightly.

  

  Carl Honore
  • World
  • Writing
  • Journalism

• I read Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Reader's Digest... I read some responsible journalism, and from that, I form my own opinions. I also happen to be intelligent, and I question everything.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • Science
  • Question
  • Popular

• Generally the aesthetics of broadcast journalism seem to me to be incredibly primitive.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Journalism
  • Primitive
  • Incredibly

• In journalism, we recognize a kind of hierarchy of fame among the famous. We measure it in two ways: by the length of an obituary and by how far in advance it is prepared. Presidents, former presidents, and certain heads of state are at the top of the chain.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Famous
  • Fame
  • Journalism

• I am not into publicity. I'm not good at it. I get anxiety about it.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Anxiety
  • Publicity

• Cricket is just something that I am good at, just like various people are good at various things. What's lucky is that cricket gets enormous publicity.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Cricket
  • Publicity

• It's the nature of journalism to need to be close to your subjects. And either you're able to be tough on them, which a lot of us are, or you get in bed with them, and some people do.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • People
  • Nature
  • Journalism

• I am not scared of anyone. I will write and publish my books.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Write
  • Books
  • Publish

• I think when money starts to corrupt journalism, it undermines the journalism, and it undermines the credibility of the product, and you end up not succeeding.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Up
  • Money
  • End

• Chicago, with its big newspapers and major broadcasting stations, couldn't have been a better city to start a journalism career.

  

  Irv Kupcinet
  • Career
  • City
  • Start

• Sadly, journalism doesn't always state the obvious.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Always
  • Journalism
  • Obvious

• It turned out I really didn't like journalism. I wanted to make up stories, not cover real events.

  

  Tawni O'Dell
  • Up
  • Real
  • Like

• The whole publicity machine is a very weird one. It's kind of a necessary part of what we do here, but this helps me keep grounded.

  

  Wendie Malick
  • Weird
  • Keep
  • Machine

• I was obliged to stand there, holding the leash of this creature for their welcoming publicity shots, implying that this was some kind of image the decided to have of me.

  

  Barbara Steele
  • Image
  • Decided
  • Publicity

• The truth is, "What is a journalist?" is one of those questions for which there is no proper answer. The prehistory of modern journalism shows it has been a ragged and confusing trade all the way through.

  

  Andrew Marr
  • Truth
  • Modern
  • Journalism

• Hard news really is hard. It sticks not in the craw but in the mind. It has an almost physical effect, causing fear, interest, laughter or shock.

  

  Andrew Marr
  • Mind
  • Fear
  • Interest

• One of the reporters must have flunked journalism school because he asked a question that went straight to the point.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • School
  • Funny
  • Question

• It is chiefly, I regret to say, through journalism that such people find expression. I regret it because there is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Community
  • Ignorance
  • Opinions

• If you have to tell a story without speaking, it's sort of like - I come from a dance background, so it's like a ballet where you have to tell a story with just your body. I think that's really interesting to have to tell a story with just your face and your mannerisms, and I'd like to tap into that world.

  

  Sami Gayle
  • World
  • Interesting
  • Dance

• The only time you'll ever have is now.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Time
  • Only Time

• As a novelist, you could say that I am dreaming while I am awake, and every day I can continue with yesterday's dream. Because it is a dream, there are so many contradictions and I have to adjust them to make the story work. But, in principle, the original dream does not change.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Change
  • Dreaming
  • Novelist

• What someone doesn't want you to publish is journalism; all else is publicity.

  

  Paul Fussell
  • Journalism
  • Publicity
  • Publish