Journalist Quotes

• I'm not a journalist any more. I don't have to stick a microphone up somebody's nostril and I don't have a camera lens behind my shoulder, I think people talk to me in a much franker way.

  

  Gerald Seymour
  • Thinking
  • Behinds
  • Cameras

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

  

  William Cullen Bryant
  • Moral
  • Journalism
  • Publishing

• I'm sort of planting Post-It notes all over my psyche. Do not skateboard wasted. Do not buy $10,000 rugs. Be careful what you say to journalists. You don't have to stay up until 7 A.M. - tomorrow is a new day.

  

  Ryan Adams
  • Careful
  • Journalist

• Doing interviews is very different from working as an actor, because it's up to the journalist not only to understand what I'm trying to convey, but to convey that understanding through their process. And often times it gets manipulated, sometimes intentionally, by pulling things out of context. Some people may not appreciate your work and some may be incredibly moved by it. So that isn't the concern. You have to do what you can do, and share what you feel is appropriate to share in the moment. And then, it's out of your control.

  

  Adrien Brody
  • Control
  • Actor
  • Interviews

• After all these years of wandering around as a street photographer and a journalist, I decided that this world is such a curious, screwed up place so full of contradictions... that I couldn't look at it any more in the raw form without trying to find some way of balancing it in a more philosophical context - less in a reportorial manner and more in an artistic one.

  

  Burk Uzzle
  • World
  • Photographer
  • Curious

• You are not just a funny person or just a journalist. Most people are hybrids of having a smart opinion and a great sense of humor.

  

  Katie Nolan
  • Great
  • Funny
  • Person

• I had an interview once with some German journalist - some horrible, ugly woman. It was in the early days after the communists - maybe a week after - and she wore a yellow sweater that was kind of see-through. She had huge tits and a huge black bra, and she said to me, "It's impolite; remove your glasses." I said, "Do I ask you to remove your bra?"

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Black
  • Kind
  • Ugly

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

  

  Amira Hass
  • Journalist
  • Jew
  • Privileges

• Technically, I could have said “journalist” or “writer.” However, admitting to these professions is like uttering a special secret password to Travel Hell. No one wants journalists or writers in their country because they have a habit of writing things, and sometimes these things are even true.

  

  Adam Fletcher
  • Habit
  • Writer
  • Journalist

• The ballpoint pen was invented by László Bíró, a Hungarian journalist who fled to Argentina to escape the German occupation of Europe. In 1943 he licensed his invention to the RAF, and the first ballpoint pens were manufactured in Reading, England, by the Miles aircraft manufacturer, to supply pilots with a lasting ink supply!

  

  Elizabeth Wein
  • German
  • England
  • Escape

• A journalist's peculiar function is to read the mind of the country and to give definite and fearless expression to that mind.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Country
  • Journalist
  • Read The Mind

• George Orwell is half journalist, half fiction writer. I'm 100 percent fiction writer... I don't want to write messages. I want to write good stories. I think of myself as a political person, but I don't state my political messages to anybody.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Messages
  • Fiction Writer
  • Political Person

• To quote Helen Lewis the journalist, ‘the comments on any article about feminism justify feminism’.

  

  Bridget Christie
  • Feminism
  • Article
  • Helen Lewis

• I'm looking for a balance of reported and essayistic work by up-and-coming women journalists. Often that means combing online-only sources or alt weeklies.

  

  Ann Friedman
  • Mean
  • Balance
  • Source

• I assume that - because you can get degrees in journalism from very reputable universities - I assume that people can be trained to be journalists. I've never been entirely certain that anyone can be trained to be a novelist in the same way.

  

  William Gibson
  • People
  • Journalism
  • Assuming

• My inclination, as an old-school, classically trained journalist, is not to go with a story unless I have it hard. It's not good enough to say something based on rumors that were flying around.

  

  Wolf Blitzer
  • School
  • Enough
  • Rumor

• The responsibility of the scientist or journalist is to convey the context. If you're talking about the Arctic Sea ice, you have to embrace the reality that there's a huge number of other things that influence that on a year-to-year basis.

  

  Andrew Revkin
  • Reality
  • Responsibility
  • Influence

• The most recent example and the most, I think, appalling example was when Martin Peretz, the owner - and I stress owner - of The New Republic fired a journalist who I think was uncommonly skilled and full of integrity and passion and all that stuff. But he had criticized regularly the former pupil and friend of Martin Peretz, Al Gore, so he was fired. That's contrarianist that went around - that did - that was not rewarded.

  

  Nat Hentoff
  • Friends
  • Passion
  • Integrity

• Journalists who are devoted to strictly factual reporting take particular pleasure from satirical news outlets that have the liberty to laugh and even mock the hypocrisy that reporters and editors must simply observe without comment.

  

  Tom Rachman
  • Pleasure
  • Liberty
  • Laughing

• I want to be a journalist; I want to ask tough questions.

  

  Ainsley Earhardt
  • Want
  • Questions
  • Journalist

• My dad's a journalist, and he travelled a lot when I was young. There is no way my mother could have done that.

  

  Raquel Cassidy
  • Young
  • Journalist
  • Travelled

• Being an American journalist can put people on the defensive. In countries where people assume the press is partisan, like in Lebanon, or where it had essentially become an extension of the government, like in Iraq, people tend to see a journalist as an agent of his or her government. That can be dangerous if the United States military is occupying their country, or aligned with their enemies.

  

  Annia Ciezadlo
  • People
  • Country
  • Military

• Susan Campbell has brought Isabella's fascinating forgotten story back to life with the deep research of a born historian and the vibrant readable prose style of a veteran journalist.

  

  Debby Applegate
  • Story
  • Historian
  • Fascinating

• I think the key to being a journalist is getting your subject to feel comfortable enough to talk about stuff they want to talk about and the stuff they like and don't like, and still feel comfortable about it.

  

  Glenn Danzig
  • Talk
  • Comfortable
  • Journalist

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