A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling. – Otto von Bismarck
We need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility for making the world interesting from God to the newspaperman. – Daniel J. Boorstin
I find I journalize too tediously. Let me try to abbreviate. – James Boswell
Write the news as if your very life depended on it. It does! – Heywood Broun
Journalism could be described as turning ones enemies into money. – Craig Brown
Journalism consists largely in saying Lord James is dead to people who never knew Lord James was alive. – G. K. Chesterton
He types his labored column — weary drudge! Senile fudge and solemn: spare, editor, to condemn these dry leaves of his autumn. – Robertson Davies
I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate. – Marguerite Duras
In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat. – Harold Evans
It was when reporters became journalists and when objectivity gave way to searching for truth, that an aura of distrust and fear arose around the New Journalist. – Georgie Anne Geyer
Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while youre at it. – Horace Greeley
If you cant get a job as a pianist in a brothel you become a royal reporter. – Max Hastings
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
Journalism is the entertainment business. – Frank Herbert
Our job is like a bakers work — his rolls are tasty as long as theyre fresh; after two days theyre stale; after a week, theyre covered with mould and fit only to be thrown out. – Ryszard Kapuscinski
Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one. – Jean De La Fontaine
The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street. – Charles Lamb
