Quotes of Journalist - somelinesforyou

“ How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read. ”

- Karl Kraus

“ Journalists belong in the gutter because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets. ”

- Gerald Priestland

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

- Karl Kraus

“ The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it. ”

- Ernest Hemingway

“ I suppose some editors are failed writers; but so are most writers. ”

- T. S. Eliot

“ For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones. ”

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“ The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, correspondent to my flowing unto him. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporters' gallery yonder, there sat a Fourth Estate more important far than they all. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat — no matter who killed the meat for him. ”

- Ernest Hemingway

“ A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction. ”

- Graham Greene

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

- Russel Lynes

“ A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling. ”

- Otto Von Bismarck

“ Bad manners make a journalist. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one. ”

- Jean de La Fontaine

“ I have never thought of myself as a good writer. Anyone who wants reassurance of that should read one of my first drafts. But I'm one of the world's great rewriters. ”

- James Albert Michener

“ I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering, jeering emptiness. They have all made what Dante calls the Great Refusal. The shallowest people on the ridge of the earth. ”

- William Butler Yeats

“ I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate. ”

- Marguerite Duras

“ 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

“ In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes. ”

- Karl Kraus

“ Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark. ”

- Arthur Schopenhauer

“ You cannot hope to bribe or twist the British journalist. But, seeing what the man will do unbribed, there's no occasion to. ”

- Humbert Wolfe

“ I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn't really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep my magazine going. ”

- Richard Branson

“ I've learned in my years as a journalist that when a politician says 'That's ridiculous' you're probably on the right track. ”

- Amy Goodman

“ I just don't see myself as a travel writer. I can't. I don't. ”

- Robyn Davidson

“ Nothing is more idealistic than a journalist on the defensive. ”

- Melvin Maddocks

“ We are recorders and reporters of the facts-not judges of the behavior we describe. ”

- Alfred Kinsey

“ I thought I'd definitely be a writer, whatever I did. ”

- Thomas Keneally

“ As a journalist, the details always tell the story. ”

- James McBride

“ I am a journalist in the field of etiquette. I try to find out what the most genteel people regularly do, what traditions they have discarded, what compromises they have made. ”

- Amy Vanderbilt
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