Quotes About Being A Journalist

#1. That was par for the course but I also found that commissions were being canceled and in fact I considered this directly libelous - I write biographies for a living as well as being a journalist - for a non fiction book to be called fiction from beginning to end.

Anthony Holden

#2. I've never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography.

James Frey

#3. I like my job and I want to do well at it but I think there's much more integrity to being a journalist maybe than being an actor.

Jessica Lucas

#4. There have been trade-offs every day, every month, every year. There's a lot that I missed and I do have regrets in that area. But I have been able to bring to my family the richness of being a journalist.

Judy Woodruff

#5. I think the key to being a journalist is getting your subject to feel comfortable enough to talk about stuff they want to talk about and the stuff they like and don't like, and still feel comfortable about it.

Glenn Danzig

#6. Being a journalist is good if you want to write books: it teaches you to get beyond the blank screen. My books have been described as froth, but there's scope to be witty and ironic about everything in life.

Sophie Kinsella

#7. Until I was 21, I wasn't going into the media. I was a professional show jumper; I was going to have a farm ... Then my father died, and it changed my life. I realised I had to have a go at being a journalist to see if I could cut the mustard.

Jonathan Dimbleby

#8. Being a journalist got me to meet with children who had witnessed all their beliefs, all their faith in the world collapse.

Roselyne Bosch

#9. Being a journalist influenced me as a novelist. I mean, a lot of critics think I'm stupid because my sentences are so simple and my method is so direct: they think these are defects. No. The point is to write as much as you know as quickly as possible.

Kurt Vonnegut

#10. Being a journalist, you write what you see. If we can't do that, what use are we? I turned years of training on myself.

Katie Hafner

#11. Being a journalist seemed the ideal way of both having a job and experiencing the world, especially for anyone with a sense of adventure.

Jackie Kennedy

#12. One of the few benefits of being a journalist is that you're not in the Army.

P. J. O'Rourke

#13. I am not insecure about being a journalist.

Tucker Carlson

#14. Being a journalist, being exposed to the world, to social injustice, to intolerance, growing up here, under apartheid, benefitting from that, has all shaped who I am and what my passions are, and of course that's going to come through in my writing.

Lauren Beukes

#15. I've played journalists before, and I have good friends who are journalists. I think being an actor is not very far from being a journalist. Because you investigate, you try to understand, you're asking questions, you're interested in the other.

Juliette Binoche

#16. Being a journalist, Hacker had no particular talent for reporting facts.

Jonathan Lynn

#17. It's great being a journalist, because our office is the world.

Rebecca Aguilar

#18. Being curious is the most important part of being a journalist. It might be the most important part of being anything.

Lemony Snicket

#19. I gave up on being a journalist - I thought having a point of view was more important than being objective.

Annie Leibovitz

#20. Becoming a politician is the only step down I could take from being a journalist.

Jim Hightower

#21. As far as the balance between being a journalist, being an artist, being a storyteller - documentary filmmakers are all three of those things. The balance between them is affected by the film itself, the topic of the film.

Marshall Curry

#22. You know I take music seriously, right? So I expect journalists to take being a journalist seriously.

Glenn Danzig

#23. I don't think I ever wanted to be a journalist - I was more interested in what comes from being a journalist.

Benjamin Booker

#24. My master's degree was in journalism, but everything important I ever learned about being a journalist I learned on the job.

Rebecca Mead

#25. Trust is the most important aspect of being a journalist. If people don't trust or find you relatable - you will not have success.

Gretchen Carlson

#26. Journalism has been very important for me - for a long time I made my living as a journalist, and it also serves as a source of ideas. Many of the things I have written I would not have written without the experience of being a journalist.

Mario Vargas-Llosa

#27. I was happy being a journalist. I didn't realize losing my job, my identity went with it.

Maria Shriver

#28. You have to draw lines between being a journalist and an activist.

Michael Pollan

#29. As a professional journalist, I am always looking for new ways to get paid for being motionless.

Dave Barry

#30. I was trained as journalist never to use the word 'I,' never to put my own opinion there. In fact, if you had a dollar or a euro for every time I use the word 'I,' you would be a poor person. But this is not true in general. I like the idea of being able to stand away and make a judgement.

Suzy Menkes

#31. I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn't really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep my magazine going.

Richard Branson

#32. At this point, any scientist, doctor, journalist, or policy maker who denies or minimizes the importance of a whole food, plant-based diet for individual and societal well-being simply isn't looking clearly at the facts. There's just too much good evidence to ignore anymore.

T. Colin Campbell

#33. And I came away from that experience, and it was a very difficult experience - I came to understand that you have to practice at being a good father and practice at being a good husband, just as you have to practice at being a good journalist.

Bob Schieffer

#34. For much of my life as a journalist, I've viewed myself as being embedded with civilians and with those people who live on the other side of the barrel of a gun.

Jeremy Scahill

#35. Working as a journalist is exactly like being the wallflower at an orgy. I always seem to find myself at a perfectly wonderful event where everyone else is having a marvelous time, laughing merrily, eating, drinking, having sex in the back room, and I am standing on the side taking notes on it all.

Nora Ephron

#36. Since I'm not a journalist, I talk about issues that encourage an interchange of ideas through conversation while also being entertaining.

Thalia

#37. It was a challenge for me to do a plot because I'd been an essayist and a journalist. I had to be vigilant about moving things along and being entertaining.

Meghan Daum

#38. If I wanted to take a more activist or journalistic slant in work, I should probably just go be an activist or a journalist. But I'm happy being a comedian.

John Oliver

#39. A journalist enjoys a privileged position. In exchange for not being able to participate in the rough-and-tumble issues of a community, we are given license to observe it all, based on the understanding that we'll tell everyone what happens fairly and squarely. That's harder than it sounds.

Bill Kurtis

#40. Being skeptical is a good thing for a journalist, because it means you don't completely trust anyone.

Lemony Snicket

#41. When I was in college, I did sort of want to be a journalist. Being an actor, you kind of have the same interest. You go into a story, and you tell it from your point of view for people who aren't there. That's what an actor does with a character. But the real life is more more interesting.

Sigourney Weaver

#42. I'm Harvard-educated; I'm an economist by training. I'm an author, a journalist, as well as being active in community development.

Winona LaDuke

#43. I worked very hard as a young journalist learning the trade and asking questions, understanding what a story is and being able to present that in a way that people would find interesting.

Jill Douglas

#44. While people are quick to praise the wisdom of the crowd, being an old-school journalist, I look at the wisdom of the crowd and know it can quickly turn into a mob mentality.

Jason Calacanis

#45. I am being ripped off, because I've never lied to the press. Just as much truth I bring to my work, a journalist should bring that much truth to their work.

Tupac Shakur

#46. One of the advantages of being a national journalist of some recognition is that you come across high-profile people, and many become your friends.

Tom Brokaw

#47. Before acting, I wanted to become a journalist. I also toyed with the idea of being a chef - but that's only when people asked me what I wanted to be. In fact, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I didn't ever believe that I was good enough to be come one.

Ian McKellen

#48. Shockingly (to maybe only me), being in a relationship has done the opposite of limiting me. It's emboldened me to try something much scarier than I would have tried if I were alone. Maybe Rachel the Hasidic journalist was right: love frees you to be the person you actually are.

Kristin Newman

#49. I think that part of being a good journalist, part of being an awake member of the world you're in, is to view yourself as an outsider, and I always have, to some degree.

Mark Leibovich

#50. But being an American woman married to an Arab guy - and a Muslim to boot! - put me in a different category. People would open up, and tell me things that they would never tell another journalist, no matter how persistent.

Annia Ciezadlo

#51. I've rarely done anything that's overtly self-destructive without consciously knowing what I'm doing. And then of course, the astute journalist jumps forward and says, "Why are you being calculated?" Calculated seems to assume a sinister intent. My intent is always for artistic effect.

Billy Corgan

#52. As a youngster, I think I said I wanted to be a journalist, but that's a disguise for being a writer.

Romesh Gunesekera

#53. As a journalist, I've always treaded carefully about being Jewish and caring a lot about Israel and having that not become too big of an issue that could affect my journalism. But I also don't think it's essential to my Judaism, as I think it might be for some other people.

David Gregory

#54. Being a famous print journalist is like being the best-dressed woman on radio.

Robin Williams

#55. I did my degree in journalism, and I then went on to being a games journalist, reviewing and previewing games and writing about the industry, visiting and interviewing developers.

Rhianna Pratchett

#56. Probably having fallen in love with music and movies at a young age and then first learning about writing by kind of following the path of writers like Dave Marsh and Lester Bangs and being a rock journalist.

Cameron Crowe

#57. I stopped being an engaged journalist and became a disengaged novelist.

Jim Crace

#58. The judgment means a lot. As a journalist being accused of invading someone's privacy, there is always a risk that it will stick to your name.

Asne Seierstad

#59. What I love - and I'm a journalist - and what I love is finding hidden patterns; I love being a data detective.

David McCandless