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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
-Matthew Arnold
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Journalism over here is not only an obsession but a drawback that cannot be overrated. Politicians are frightened of the press, and in the same way as bull-fighting has a brutalizing effect upon Spain (of which she is unconscious), headlines of murder, rape, and rubbish, excite and demoralize the American public.
-Margot Asquith
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The lowest form of popular culture -- lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives -- has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.
-Carl Bernstein, "Guardian (London)", June 3, 1992
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A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
-Otto von Bismarck
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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
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I find I journalize too tediously. Let me try to abbreviate.
-James Boswell
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Write the news as if your very life depended on it. It does!
-Heywood Broun
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Journalism could be described as turning one's enemies into money.
-Craig Brown
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Journalism consists largely in saying Lord James is dead to people who never knew Lord James was alive.
-G. K. Chesterton
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People accuse journalism of being too personal; but to me it has always seemed far too impersonal. It is charged with tearing away the veils from private life; but it seems to me to be always dropping diaphanous but blinding veils between men and men. The Yellow Press is abused for exposing facts which are private; I wish the Yellow Press did anything so valuable. It is exactly the decisive individual touches that it never gives; and a proof of this is that after one has met a man a million times in the newspapers it is always a complete shock and reversal to meet him in real life.
-G. K. Chesterton
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Evidently there are plenty of people in journalism who have neither got what they liked nor quite grown to like what they get. They write pieces they do not much enjoy writing, for papers they totally despise, and the sad process ends by ruining their style and disintegrating their personality, two developments which in a writer cannot be separate, since his personality and style must progress or deteriorate together, like a married couple in a country where death is the only permissible divorce.
-Claud Cockburn
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He types his labored column -- weary drudge! Senile fudge and solemn: spare, editor, to condemn these dry leaves of his autumn.
-Robertson Davies
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I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.
-Marguerite Duras
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Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable. A journalist is someone who looks at the world and the way it works, someone who takes a close look at things every day and reports what she sees, someone who represents the world, the event, for others. She cannot do her work without judging what she sees.
-Marguerite Duras
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Journalism is organized gossip.
-Edward Eggleston
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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
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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
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Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it.
-Horace Greeley
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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
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If you can't get a job as a pianist in a brothel you become a royal reporter.
-Max Hastings
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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
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Journalism is the entertainment business.
-Frank Herbert
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Our job is like a baker's work -- his rolls are tasty as long as they're fresh; after two days they're stale; after a week, they're covered with mould and fit only to be thrown out.
-Ryszard Kapuscinski
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Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.
-Jean De La Fontaine
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The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
-Charles Lamb
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Books about Journalism
