Journalist Quotes - Page 35

• Journalism has been very important for me - for a long time I made my living as a journalist, and it also serves as a source of ideas. Many of the things I have written I would not have written without the experience of being a journalist.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Ideas, Long, Important

  "Interview With Mario Vargas Llosa". Interview with Katharyn Rodemann, www.texasmonthly.com. November 2002.

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• I was working as a journalist for an Israeli paper in Paris, and my salary at the highest was fifty dollars a month. At the end of the month I always had palpitations; I didn't know how to pay my rent. Even after the war, I was often hungry. But that's part of the romantic condition of a student. To be a student in Paris and not be hungry is wrong.

  Elie Wiesel

  War, Paris, Paper

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• As I've gotten older, I've realized that things are a lot more permeable. It's not so black and white: not every journalist is a jerk.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Black And White, Jerk, White

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• Lawyers tend to be bright people. They tend to be-much more than many journalists I've encountered-sticklers for detail and accuracy, and they have a logical way of arguing.

  Ann Coulter

  People, Details, Way

  Source: www.lawcrossing.com

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• I know loads of coppers and dealt with them a lot when I was a journalist - coppers are easy to write for; they tend to run on rails.

  Terry Pratchett

  Running, Writing, Easy

  Source: boingboing.net

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  The ethic of the journalist is to recognize one's prejudices, biases, and avoid getting them into print.

  Walter Cronkite

  Prejudice, Ethics, Print

  Source: www.midtod.com

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• There's that old cliché which has a lot of basis in truth, that all music journalists are failed rock stars. They all harbour the inner feeling they should be up under the spotlight and the microphone is there for them.

  Sylvie Simmons

  Stars, Rocks, Feelings

  Source: www.elsewhere.co.nz

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• I hate to speak for the whole society, but I will. I'm a journalist, it's my job. There's been something of a reaction against political correctness. Needless to say, the government hasn't caught up yet.

  Dave Barry

  Jobs, Hate, Government

  ""All I Think Is That It's Stupid": An Interview with Dave Barry". Interview with Glenn Garvin, reason.com. December, 1994.

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• John Dorschner, one of our staff writers here at Tropic magazine at The Miami Herald, who is a good friend of mine and an excellent journalist, but a raving liberal, wrote a story about a group that periodically pops up saying that they're going to start their own country or start their own planet or go back to their original planet, or whatever. They were going to "create a libertarian society" on a floating platform in the Caribbean somewhere. I know there's never going to be a country on a floating anything, but if they want to talk about it, that's great.

  Dave Barry

  Country, Good Friend, Groups

  ""All I Think Is That It's Stupid": An Interview with Dave Barry". Interview with Glenn Garvin, reason.com. December, 1994.

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• If you read the book, you're not a journalist. You're some impostor! No journalist actually does any work.

  Tucker Max

  Book, Doe, Ifs

  Source: www.complex.com

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• It's good for a writer to come from journalism because it gives you the tools. A journalist knows that he or she can lose the reader in six lines, so try to keep the attention of the reader. Also, you learn to research, and to conduct an interview - to extract from the person whatever you need from that person.

  Isabel Allende

  Giving, Trying, Research

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Individual storytelling is incredibly powerful. We as journalists know intuitively what scientists of the brain are discovering through brain scans, which is that emotional stories tend to open the portals, and that once there's a connection made, people are more open to rational arguments.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Powerful, Emotional, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• In a sense, journalism can be both helpful and detrimental to a writer of fiction because the kind of writing you need to do as a journalist is so different. It has to be clear, unambiguous, concise, and as a writer often you are trying to do things that are more ambiguous. I find that writing fiction is often an antidote to reading and writing too much journalism.

  Aravind Adiga

  Reading, Writing, Trying

  "MoJo Interview: Aravind Adiga". Interview with Sonja Sharp, www.motherjones.com. June 19, 2009.

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• I am really inspired by writers, and weirdly - respect music journalists, which I think makes me the exception amongst most musicians. I think it's a craft. I think it's been really neglected - sadly. I think about the days of the great legendary rock critics. Who's going to become that when magazines and newspapers don't pay anyone properly or don't seem to respect the history or research that is required?

  Emily Haines

  Thinking, Rocks, Crafts

  Source: www.sfcritic.com

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• Every interview is as much an impression of the journalist as it is the artist or subject. You look at interviews and you see a portrait of two people. The worst thing that can happen is if you're misquoted and then that quote is misquoted. That does drive one crazy. The most embarrassing thing is when your words are misrepresented or sometimes you say something stupid and you live to regret it.

  Antony Hegarty

  Regret, Crazy, Stupid

  Source: thequietus.com

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• The problem with reality TV is that creative writers are not involved; TV folks are, and some journalists who will only mine the surface of subjects. Hard work necessary for discovering and delineating the intimacies of the subjects they capture is mostly avoided.

  Lee Gutkind

  Hard Work, Reality, Creative

  Source: www.luxlotus.com

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• As a graphic artist, my job on a local paper was creating the advertising as well as working as a journalist on sports and community issues. There are many more jobs I've done in my day, I can't remember them all.

  Franny Armstrong

  Sports, Jobs, Artist

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

  Guus Hiddink

  Team, Responsible, Should

  Source: dutchsoccersite.org

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• There are journalists I share a whole history with, so I tend to be generous to these guys, but those days are over.

  Guus Hiddink

  Guy, Share, Whole

  Source: dutchsoccersite.org

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• I didn't go to university. They offered me a job as a junior reporter and I went off to work for the Southern Reporter. They sent me to college to do my NCTJ, which is a professional exam for journalists, and I started work as a print journalist purely because I was just a pest. They couldn't think of anything other than giving me a job to stop me hanging around.

  Jill Douglas

  Jobs, College, Thinking

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• I worked very hard as a young journalist learning the trade and asking questions, understanding what a story is and being able to present that in a way that people would find interesting.

  Jill Douglas

  Asking Questions, Interesting, People

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• Whether you work in news, sport, politics, whatever, it's exactly the same; a story is a story, is a story. I consider myself first and foremost a journalist.

  Jill Douglas

  Sports, Firsts, News

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• I don't know if other people have found it difficult relating to me, certainly that's not the feedback I've had. I don't think of myself particularly as a woman working in sport. I think of myself as a broadcaster, a journalist, and the right person for the job, regardless of whether I happen to be female or male.

  Jill Douglas

  Sports, Jobs, Thinking

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• I think because I came from a very strong news background and people were aware of me from that side of things, they appreciated me as a journalist. Maybe it was less difficult for me.

  Jill Douglas

  Strong, Thinking, People

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• The tragedy of my job [journalist] is that I rarely get to go where I want to go. I have to go where the job takes me.

  Jay Rayner

  Jobs, Tragedy, Want

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