14 Seymour Hersh Quotes for You to Enjoy

Seymour Hersh

American Journalist

Born: Apr 8, 1937

Always Me People Seriously Think You

Related authors: Ambrose Bierce Dave Barry Erma Bombeck Hunter S. Thompson Mignon McLaughlin Walter Cronkite William F. Buckley, Jr. William Lloyd Garrison

I didn't know I was gonna be a writer when I started out. Seymour Hersh

Out Writer Know Gonna Started

I'm not convinced that every secret has to be published. I think there are secrets worth keeping, and I think there are secrets not worth keeping. Seymour Hersh

Worth Every Think Secret Secrets Convinced Published Keeping

Yeah, I shoot my mouth off. There's a huge difference between writing and thinking. Seymour Hersh

Writing Mouth Thinking Between Yeah Off Huge Huge Difference Shoot Difference

It doesn't matter that Bush scares the hell out of me. What matters is that he scares the hell out of a lot of very important people in Washington who can't speak out, in the military, in the intelligence community. Seymour Hersh

If you think I write stories where it is all right to just be good enough, are you kidding? You think I have a cavalier attitude on throwing stuff out? Are you kidding? I am not cavalier about what I do for a living. Seymour Hersh

Attitude Good You Just Be Living Think Enough Kidding Out About Write Throwing Stuff Am Just Where Stories Right

I have always been a freelancer. I always work for myself. Seymour Hersh

Work Myself Always Been

I don't necessarily buy the story that Bin Laden was responsible for 9/11. Seymour Hersh

Buy Responsible Story Bin Necessarily

I have this sort of heuristic view that journalism, we possibly offer hope because the world is clearly run by total nincompoops more than ever... Not that journalism is always wonderful - it's not - but at least we offer some way out, some integrity. Seymour Hersh

I say to people, 'Do you have any idea how hard it is to do that, to write 7,000 words in 10 hours or 12 hours for the front page of the 'New York Times' and to know that they trust you so much that that it's going to lead the paper?' It's hard. I mean, it's a feat. Seymour Hersh

You Trust People Words Paper Say Feat Write Lead Idea New Hours Know How Times York Any Front Going Front Page New York New York Times Mean Much Page Hard

Tracking down people who did not want to be found was vital to what I did for a living, and I was good at it. Seymour Hersh

Good People Down Living Vital Tracking Did Want Who Found

Most of the important secrets that I've known about, the real secrets that are known about aren't worth publishing. Seymour Hersh

Worth Important Secrets About Most Known Real Publishing

I think the moment anybody seriously tampers with the First Amendment, you're going to see an outcry. Seymour Hersh

You Seriously First Think See First Amendment Amendment Going Anybody Moment

I can't fudge what I write. But I can certainly fudge what I say. Seymour Hersh

Say Write Certainly

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