Journalist Quotes

I feel I'm functioning at some level as a journalist because even though I write fiction, I'm trying to get the world accurate.

Deep in my heart it still feels like I'm a journalist even though I haven't worked for a paper and carried a press pass for 14 years.

In the end I'm still a writer. I'm still a journalist, and my first responsibility is to my readers. That's where I have to draw the line.

I try to write in the first person - the first person not of a journalist but of a carnivore, an eater, a gardener, someone trying to figure out what to feed his family.

I have no scientific training at all. I was an English major in school. Everything I learned about science I've learned as a journalist would, finding out what I needed to know.

You have to draw lines between being a journalist and an activist.

As a journalist, if you want to explore the world, you have to take a risk.

I feel like, in some ways, I'm just a journalist.

Never trust a journalist unless she's your mother.

It's perfectly within [Martin Peretz] rights [to fire a journalist]. It's a private - you know, th - it's not censorship. The First Amendment doesn't come into play because it's a private magazine.

I'm an entertainer. Not a journalist or spokesman for anybody. Truth is, a lot of my listeners absolutely hate what I have to say.

I wish I was a great writer or a great journalist or a great scientist or a great artist; I'm not.

No honest journalist should be willing to describe himself or herseif as 'embedded.' To say, 'I'm an embedded journalist' is to say, 'I'm a government Propagandist.

Generally it's not a good idea to wear Banana Republic - type khaki journalist clothes in a war zone. You might look too much like something that's supposed to be shot, such as a journalist.

I'm here as a radio journalist but am not even sure which part of a tape recorder takes the pictures.

It's a little bit in the genes because my brother is a journalist and my father was a sports writer.

For somebody who is a journalist, I can be awfully unobservant sometimes.

Journalists should be people in whom there is at least a flicker of hope.

I'm a mother, I'm a journalist, I'm an American; I'm all of those things, and it really complicates your job when you have all these things come into play.

Having been a journalist for thirty-nine years, I've developed a pretty thick skin.

I never intended to make a living from music. That's the funny thing. I wanted to be a journalist.

I am sensitive to the value of faith and religion and spirituality in people's lives because I'm a journalist.

Do I think I was put here on earth to be a journalist and to seek truth? No, I don't.

When journalists come to interview me, it's a part of my life that is exhibited, as if pieces of clothing are being taken off one by one. But it's not very important really.

I always want to know which tracks are the journalists' favourites.

Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.

Heres the problem: Journalists just dont understand their business.

History is written by victors and, occasionally, sensationalist journalists. I mean that with the best respect.

My master's degree was in journalism, but everything important I ever learned about being a journalist I learned on the job.

Best qualification for an aspiring journalist is curiosity.

Journalists seem mostly interested in what brand of shoes I wear.

I had no plans to be an entrepreneur. I just wanted to be a journalist and write for a magazine. At 15, I just decided to leave school and launch a national student magazine.

There's many heroic underappreciated investigative journalists.

I worked for a brief spell as a journalist, but soon I discovered that I didn't want to be a journalist - I wanted to be a historian.

As a journalist, you sort of grind away, taking rejections as they come, building on whatever advances you've achieved.

Colleagues will malign you if you're a moderately successful journalist.

I write as well as I can. I'm a journalist at heart, so it's the story that matters.

I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power.

I think documentary filmmakers need as much protection as possible under journalist's privilege. How else is the public to know what is going on?

The journalist's job is to get the story by breaking into their offices, by bribing, by seducing people, by lying, by anything else to break through the palace guard.

I like it when journalists are nice to me, and it's happening more and more.

Being a journalist got me to meet with children who had witnessed all their beliefs, all their faith in the world collapse.

Journalist: A person with nothing on his mind and the power to express it.

Journalists often put things into either-or scenarios.

Often there is a wall between the journalist and the star because there is usually not much time to get to know a person, and the star is always asked the same questions, and may be defensive.

I started off as a journalist when I was young and I did not get paid unless I wrote three stories a day.

If I wasn't going to be a world-famous journalist and if I didn't have such respect for truth and justice, I could be an amazing master criminal.

Journalists are getting big stories wrong, over and over again.

I don't believe in journalists having 'responsibility.'

Unfortunately, conflicts have always been there and they don't seem to be stopping. I'm a journalist and a photojournalist at heart, and I think that we have to be there always to cover it.