Journalist Quotes - Page 6

I don't trust lawyers and journalists.

I thought I wanted to be a journalist or a novelist.

I never intended to be a journalist. Frankly, I don't think I ever was a journalist. I backed into it.

I have never, in 50 years, ever missed a deadline [as a journalist].

I knew I had to be a journalist because I'm deeply curious about the world.

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.

I'm not a journalist. I'm a pundit. I'm a commentator, I'm somebody with an opinion.

I believe that I've been asked all possible questions. I, myself, if I were a journalist, would not know what to ask me.

There's always to me a universality - one of the things I learned early on as a journalist and a writer is that there's a universality in specifics. The more specific you get, the more universal it can be.

I'm a journalist and that's what I do.

I always wanted to be a serious journalist.

Most journalists are broken down alcoholics.

I was a lousy journalist. I could never be objective. Sometimes I invented the whole story.

No, there are no hard and fast rules about sources, no printed booklet to help journalists through.

You know journalists. You know the media. They are going to hang on to anything negative they possibly can.

Journalists grow accustomed to seeing evil and they let it pass; they proceed to approve it, and they end by committing it themselves.

For the journalist, anything probable is gospel truth.

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

A lot of journalists say, "Tell us about the '80s." Nobody wants to know about the '70s!

My mother was a journalist, so writing is not unnatural to me.

I would never let myself knock out a journalist.

Journalists are too poorly paid in this country to know anything that is fit for publication.

Breaking news is the most masturbating thing journalists do.

I never sue journalists. I employ journalists. I employ too many of them. I don't sue journalists.

You have to develop a conscience and if on top of that you have talent so much the better. But if you have talent without conscience, you are just one of many thousand journalists.