Short Journalism Quotes

#1. One good thing about leaving daily journalism was that I was no longer obliged to read all the book prize short lists.

Annalena McAfee

#2. I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.

Tom Stoppard

#3. What sells, today, is whatever Fucks You Up - whatever short-circuits your brain and grounds it out for the longest possible time.

Hunter S. Thompson

#4. As well as writing novels and doing short-order journalism, I am also the full-time carer of my husband, who has Alzheimer's. Each day feels like a race that must be run.

Laurie Graham

#5. It's a distillation of all I know about writing: short-story writing, screenwriting, journalism - everything. There is no future in the novel, so far as I can see. I'm trying to show where writing is going to be. I may not get there, but I will point the way." In

Gerald Clarke

#6. A short story is a writer's way of thinking through experience ... Journalism aims at accuracy, but fiction's aim is truth. The writer distorts reality in the interest of a larger truth.

John L'Heureux

#7. One of the biggest complaints readers have about my work is that I don't tell them often enough what they can do. I do think this is an area where journalism sometimes falls short. We describe a really grim situation but don't really explain to people what they can do about it.

Nicholas Kristof

#8. The dictator's black hand had
made China a birdcage wrapped in red flags.--From "Balloons

Zoe S. Roy