321 Journalist Quotes for You to Enjoy

When I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder the year I turned 50, it was certainly a shock. But as a journalist, knowing a little bit about a lot of things, I didn't suffer the misconception that depression was all in my head or a mark of poor character. I knew it was a disease, and, like all diseases, was treatable. Jane Pauley

Depression Character Journalist Year Bipolar Mark Bit About Misconception Head Knew Like Knowing Diagnosed Lot Shock Disease Diseases Little Little Bit Poor Turned Disorder Certainly Suffer Things

I began as a journalist for my pocketbook and a poet for my soul. Jane Yolen

Soul Poet Journalist Pocketbook My Soul Began

My father was an engineer - he wasn't literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of the world's great readers. Janet Fitch

Great World Engineer Father Journalist Writer He Readers Literary

The journalist cannot create his subjects any more than the analyst can create his patients. Janet Malcolm

Journalist Analyst More His Subjects Than Any Patients Cannot Create

The journalist confines himself to the clean, gentlemanly work of exposing the griefs and shames of others. Janet Malcolm

Work Journalist Others Clean Himself Gentlemanly Confines Exposing

I prefer the word 'journeyman' to 'journalist' because I think that certainly, when you hear a story, you want to hear certain facts. But I also think what makes a story interesting is the points of view expressed therein. Jason Silva

Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one. Jean de La Fontaine

Evil Journalist Owes Every Tribute

I always wanted to be a serious journalist. Jeannette Walls

Journalist Always Wanted Serious

I was a journalist, but I was starving. And I've written fiction, but I couldn't get a publisher. So, I was basically a very frustrated creative person working in advertising, and even there, I have a great idea that client won't buy it. Jeffrey Zeldman

There's something very strange about associating me with that prize. I had hoped for it in a more directed way as a journalist. Somehow as a journalist you know there are Pulitzers out there and you can work hard and get one. To win it for Fiction seems unbelievable. Jennifer Egan

Work Me You Strange Work Hard Win Journalist Way Out Hoped Unbelievable About Somehow Seems Something Directed More Had Know Very Prize Get Fiction Hard

Ultimately if you're a journalist, one day you're writing about figure skating, one day a political debate. I loved that about reporting. I like throwing my energies into various corners of the world. Jess Walter

I very much wanted to be accepted by my peers, to be considered a serious journalist. Jessica Savitch

Journalist Peers Considered Accepted Very Wanted Much Serious

I stopped being an engaged journalist and became a disengaged novelist. Jim Crace

Journalist Became Disengaged Stopped Being Engaged Novelist

Sixteen years as a freelance features journalist taught me that neither the absence of 'the Muse' nor the presence of 'the block' should be allowed to hinder the orderly progress of a book. Jim Crace

Me Book Progress Journalist Freelance Neither Absence Features Allowed Hinder Block Nor Years Sixteen Taught Orderly Should Presence Muse

I'm not rational enough to be a good journalist. Jim Harrison

Good Journalist Enough Rational

I'm a journalist and that's what I do. Jim Lehrer

Journalist

It's hard for me to think about this, but I first went to Southeast Asia as a Marine more than 40 years ago, as a young Marine. I was on Okinawa and then in Vietnam. I've returned in many different hats, which I think has helped me to form my own views about policy out there. I've spent a good bit of time in this region as a journalist. Jim Webb

Time Good Me Journalist First Own Young Think Spent Bit Out Hats About My Own More Policy Returned Years Years Ago Southeast Southeast Asia Than Different Form Which Region Asia Then Vietnam Hard Views Helped Many Marine

Don't call me a journalist; I hate the word. It's pretentious! Jimmy Breslin

Me Hate Word Pretentious Journalist Call

On Wednesday, January 1, 1954, at 6:30 P.M., I presented the first-ever 'Top of the Pops.' I remember a journalist asking me how long I thought the programme would last. I said to him, 'It will last as long as people buy records.' Jimmy Savile

I once told a journalist that girls call me 'Kitten,' but I couldn't have been more sarcastic, and no matter how many times I've said that it was a joke, it still doesn't go away. Joaquin Phoenix

The prospect that I could actually be a journalist triggered a 'Who do you think you are?' reaction in me. It was only in going to law school and being unhappy there that I realized that I really, really had to try it. Jodi Kantor

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