“ Journalists belong in the gutter because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets. ”
- Gerald Priestland- Copy
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“ Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write. ”
- Karl Kraus- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ I suppose some editors are failed writers; but so are most writers. ”
- T. S. Eliot- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, correspondent to my flowing unto him. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it. ”
- Russel Lynes- Copy
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“ A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling. ”
- Otto Von Bismarck- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate. ”
- Marguerite Duras- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark. ”
- Arthur Schopenhauer- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
- 2.3K
“ I just don't see myself as a travel writer. I can't. I don't. ”
- Robyn Davidson- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Nothing is more idealistic than a journalist on the defensive. ”
- Melvin Maddocks- Copy
- 2.5K
“ We are recorders and reporters of the facts-not judges of the behavior we describe. ”
- Alfred Kinsey- Copy
- 2.9K
“ 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- Copy
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