Jessica Savitch Quotes about Literature

To get it first is important - but more important is to get it right.

My current goal is to place a moratorium on goals.

I worked half my life to be an overnight success, and still it took me by surprise.

News events cannot be controlled, nor can newscasts be mapped out like entertainment shows.

News reporting is a cycle: No matter how much you work at sending a message, it's only successful if it's received.

Many senators have developed a canny sense of what will play best for the audience.

Women may not have it easy, but we are given a fairer chance to reach for the top.

The relationship between talent — a term loosely applied to those who work on-air — and management is uneasy, at best.

Being a novelty had its advantages.

Newscasters cannot call attention to themselves by being too attractive or too unattractive.

Shootouts are not gunfights of honor, they're gang wars and racial riots.

Walking into a room filled with people you don't know but who know you brings out your worst vulnerabilities.

I very much wanted to be accepted by my peers, to be considered a serious journalist.

When for so long you can't get a job for reasons that seem specious, you you finally do have it, you are constantly afraid of losing it.

Texas was defined by its larger-than-life characters, particularly politicians.

I hadn't realized until I covered the police beat just how seedy crime is.

My goal was to be a network correspondent by the time I was 30.

In every interview I have ever read or seen or taken part in, the final question in our future-oriented society is always, What next?

When I first anchored in 1970, I had never seen a woman anchor a news show.

Women were seldom given quality assignments or adequate air time.