Bill Kovach Quotes

#1. Your life isn't about doing one perfect 'thing' and then falling down dead. It's more like going to church or writing a book. You do it over and over, always trying to be a little bit better. Then you die.

Chuck Palahniuk

#2. I'm more of a Cristal Connors than a Nomi Malone.

Brad Goreski

#3. Even if you set a long-term goal, that doesn't mean it's a straight-line journey. Often, there are problems and obstacles along the way.

Fred DeLuca

#4. If we're going to live as we are in a world of supply and demand, then journalists had better find a way to create a demand for good journalism.

Bill Kovach

#5. A genuine primary is a fight within the family of the party - and, like any family fight, is apt to be more bitter and leave more enduring wounds than battle with the November enemy.

Theodore H. White

#6. In painting, detail for the sake of itself is useless. It must have relevance to the whole.

Ken Danby

#7. The credibility of the work depends on copy editors. I would argue with the copy desk, but I would thank them more.

Bill Kovach

#8. Journalism is the closest thing I have to a religion, because I believe deeply in the role and responsibility the journalists have to the people of a self-governing community.

Bill Kovach

#9. You might be surprised to know how many successful writers produced hopelessly incompetent first books. They were not wasting their time. They were learning their trade.

Anonymous

#10. One of the most useful pieces of advice we've learned in our journalism careers is summed up in the phrase "beware the fallacy of evil men.

Bill Kovach

#11. South Korea's investment in Russia has not been smooth, ... Korea had planned to carry out 126 investment projects worth 273 million, but in reality, only 91 projects worth 137 million are under way.

Vladimir Putin

#12. There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.

Max Beckmann

#13. Heinlein never had a best-seller. Even, I think, with Stranger in a Strange Land, I don't think it was actually on the New York Times best seller list.

Jerry Pournelle

#14. No person learned the art of archery from me,
who did not in the end make me his target.

Saadi

#15. So many directors are solely focused on their own success in Hollywood and multimillion dollar budgets and deals.

Shirley Knight

#16. Why is an artist an artist? Artists simply do feel and see things in a different way to other people. In a way it's a blessing, but it can also be a terrible curse. There's a great deal of satisfaction to be earned from it but often it's also a terrible burden.

Roger Waters

#17. In the end, the discipline of verification is what separates journalism from entertainment, propaganda, fiction, or art.

Bill Kovach