Journalism Quotes
 

[COLOR="Sienna"]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.[/COLOR]
Graham Greene (1904-1991) English writer.

[COLOR="DarkOliveGreen"]The real news is bad news.
[/COLOR]Marshall Mcluhan (1911-1980) Canadian communications theorist and educator.

[COLOR="DarkGreen"]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.
[/COLOR]Mark Twain (1835-1910) U.S. humorist, writer, and lecturer.

[COLOR="DarkSlateBlue"]Bad manners make a journalist.[/COLOR]
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Irish poet and dramatist.

[COLOR="Navy"]Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.
[/COLOR]Frank Zappa (1940-1993) American composer and rock musician.

[COLOR="DarkSlateGray"]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.
[/COLOR]Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1845) American poet, critic, and short-story writer.

[COLOR="DarkRed"]Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.
[/COLOR]Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) German philosopher.

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

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

[COLOR="Green"]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.
[/COLOR]Ernest Hemingway (1898-1961) American Writer.

[COLOR="Teal"]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.
[/COLOR]Karl Kraus (1874-1936) Austrian satirist.

[COLOR="Blue"]If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
[/COLOR]Karl Kraus (1874-1936) Austrian satirist.

[COLOR="Blue"]Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.
[/COLOR]Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695) French poet.

[COLOR="SlateGray"]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.
[/COLOR]Georg C. Lichtenberg (1742-1799) German scientist, satirist and anglophile.

[COLOR="Red"]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.
[/COLOR]Norman Mailer (1923-?) American writer.