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 (1904-1991) English writer.

The real news is bad news.
Marshall Mcluhan (1911-1980) Canadian communications theorist and educator.

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 (1835-1910) U.S. humorist, writer, and lecturer.

Bad manners make a journalist.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Irish poet and dramatist.

Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.
Frank Zappa (1940-1993) American composer and rock musician.

We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, the readily diffused -- in place of the verbose, the detailed, the voluminous, the inaccessible. On the other hand, the lightness of the artillery should not degenerate into pop-gunnery -- by which term we may designate the character of the greater portion of the newspaper press -- their sole legitimate object being the discussion of ephemeral matters in an ephemeral manner.
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1845) American poet, critic, and short-story writer.

Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) German philosopher.

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers another.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) British journalist, novelist and poet.

Journalism consists largely in saying ''Lord James is dead'' to people who never knew Lord James was alive.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) British journalist, novelist and poet.

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 (1898-1961) American Writer.

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 (1874-1936) Austrian satirist.

If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
Karl Kraus (1874-1936) Austrian satirist.

Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.
Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695) French poet.

The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such a hammering you can't hear yourself speak.
Georg C. Lichtenberg (1742-1799) German scientist, satirist and anglophile.

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 (1923-?) American writer.