Journalism Quotes

When you put your hand to the plow, you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row.

Alice Paul

If, for instance, they have heard something from the postman, they attribute it to a semi-official statement; if they have fallen into conversation with a stranger at a bar, they can conscientiously describe him as a source that has hitherto proved unimpeachable. It is only when the journalist is reporting a whim of his own, and one to which he attaches minor importance, that he defines it as the opinion of well-informed circles.

Evelyn Waugh

I'd get into a room and disappear into the woodwork. Now the rooms are so crowded with reporters getting behind-the-scenes stories that nobody can get behind-the-scenes stories.

Theodore White, American Journal

Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable. A journalist is someone who looks at the world and the way it works, someone who takes a close look at things every day and reports what she sees, someone who represents the world, the event, for others. She cannot do her work without judging what she sees.

Marguerite Duras

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

Marguerite Duras

I became a journalist because I did not want to rely on newspapers for information.

Christopher Hitchens

I had become too accustomed to the pseudo-Left new style, whereby if your opponent thought he had identified your lowest possible motive, he was quite certain that he had isolated the only real one. This vulgar method, which is now the norm and the standard in much non-Left journalism as well, is designed to have the effect of making any noisy moron into a master analyst.

Christopher Hitchens

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.

Thomas Jefferson

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

But what is the difference between literature and journalism ...Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all.

Oscar Wilde

I find I journalize too tediously. Let me try to abbreviate.

James Boswell

We need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility for making the world interesting from God to the newspaperman.

Daniel J. Boorstin

The press is like the air, a chartered libertine.

William Pitt

Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.

Jean de La Fontaine

Journalism is literature in a hurry.

Matthew Arnold

A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.

Otto von Bismarck

The facts fairly and honestly presented; truth will take care of itself.

William Allen White

I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in my column.

Don Marquis

Journalism could be described as turning one's enemies into money.

Craig Brown

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

Arthur Schopenhauer