323 Newspaper Quotes for You to Enjoy

I wrote my first short story for a competition and won second prize. Another competition came up and I won first prize. The first story was published in a newspaper. The second went out on radio. Ian Rankin

Competition First Out Wrote Another Came Up Won Prize Short Short Story Story Newspaper Radio Published Second

I wish all high schools could offer students the outside activities that were available at the old Harrison High on Chicago's West Side in the late '20s. They enabled me to become part of a school newspaper, drama group, football team and student government. Irv Kupcinet

Government Me School Old Wish Become Group Drama Late Side High High Schools Could Student Outside Students Football Part Football Team Schools Were West West Side Chicago Offer Available Newspaper Team Activities

By the time I got to Northwestern University in 1930, I was a football bum more interested in being an All-Star player and signing on with a pro team than going after a newspaper job. Irv Kupcinet

My freshman year at Harrison High School, I saw a journalism class where students were putting out a weekly newspaper. It touched a responsive chord in me. Irv Kupcinet

If you ever decide to build a boat out of wet newspaper, it's important to remember to lay down the sheets like shingles on a house: One issue at a time, starting at the bow and moving aft, so water flows over the layers, not under them. Jamie Hyneman

Time You Water Remember Important Build Down Out Lay Layers Over Like Bow House Sheets Issue Wet Decide Moving Them Newspaper Boat Ever Starting Flows

I left my job as a feature writer on a newspaper to write a book, then sent it off to a number of agents thinking they would all reject me. Within a week, most had come back to say they loved what they had read, which then led to a bidding war for my first two novels. Jane Green

War Me Book Job First Thinking Back Say Would Feature Week Write Writer Had Come Most Read Bidding Within Led Off Left Loved Which Sent Newspaper Then Agents Novels Reject Number Two

It seems like whenever a big newspaper or TV show talks about teen literature, they focus on dark books or vampire books. It's kind of this cliche. It seems like the only time adults pay attention is with that angle. Jay Asher

Time Dark Focus Big Pay Pay Attention Teen Books Kind TV Vampire TV Show About Angle Seems Only Only Time Adult Attention Like Cliche Talks Whenever Literature Newspaper Show

Political cartoonists get hung up on daily deadlines and the front page. The worst thing you can do is open up the newspaper and ask, 'What's funny about this?' Jeff MacNelly

Funny Daily You Political Hung Worst Worst Thing Cartoonists About Open Deadlines Up Get Front Front Page Newspaper Ask Page Thing

I worry about every newspaper. I worry about the financial undertaking, and I worry that somehow the loss of the sale of the paper version will affect their ability to have journalists and editors and producers. We really need those. Jeffrey Zeldman

I was sports editor for my high school newspaper, but I think I shied away from journalism. Jenna Bush

Sports School Think High High School Journalism Editor Newspaper Away

I had this crazy job, though, when I first got to Los Angeles... I answered this ad in the back of the newspaper to be a telephone psychic, and I did that for two days. Jenna Fischer

Crazy Psychic Job First Back Telephone Though Angeles Had Days Answered Got Los Los Angeles Did Newspaper Ad Two

People often think that reporters write their own headlines. In fact, they almost never do. The people who do write headlines are the copy editors who are the front and last lines of quality-checking in a newspaper before it goes to print. Jennifer Lee

I've been writing since I was sixteen. At first, I wrote mostly short stories and poetry. The first thing I ever had published was a poem about a football game. It was printed in my local newspaper. Jerry Spinelli

Game Writing First Local About Poem Poetry Had Football Football Game Since Wrote Mostly First Thing Printed Been Short The First Thing Sixteen Stories Short Stories Newspaper Ever Published Thing

Football is so popular, people know they can sell their story in a newspaper form or a rating on TV, so they use football because what they are more about is the business of, you know, selling newspapers or seeing commercial time on TV. Jim Irsay

In my case, I was covering politics in Texas as a newspaper man in the 1960's. Jim Lehrer

Politics Man Case Covering Texas Newspaper

Newspapers are so boring. How can you read a newspaper that starts with a 51-word lead sentence? Jimmy Breslin

You Starts Boring Lead Read How Newspaper Sentence Newspapers

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