Quotes About Journalism

Since I make my living as a literary journalist, not a book scout, I spend inordinate amounts of time either reading or writing.

I tell my students, even if you are an opinion journalist, your opinion should be based on facts.

I have been asking if I'm an activist or a journalist. And my answer is very simple. I'm just a journalist who asks questions.

I was so clear on the fact that I wanted to be a journalist that I asked my parents if I could go to a tutorial college to do my O-levels early, which I did when I was 13.

In my mind, I still think - and wish - that I'm going to be a journalist or a writer. That's been my dream job my entire life.

I'm a journalist; I love doing interviews, and I hope that will continue.

I think the hardest stories we tell are always the ones about ourselves. And as a journalist, I was taught that I'm never supposed to put myself in the story. So I spent what, 11, 12 years of my life writing about other people so I don't have to face my own life.

I'm not a journalist; I'm probably a horrible interviewer. The one small thing I have is I'm curious, and I'm interested in who I'm with.

Actually, I wanted to become a journalist, but no matter who I imagined myself to be in the future, somehow I was sure: I would leave my hometown. I felt it was my destiny.

When I was a kid growing up, I always thought I would be a journalist, and I thought, you know, I'd cover stories about other people, and we're always taught never to make the story about yourself.

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

I'm not a journalist. I have not gone to school for this.

As an entertainment journalist for over a decade, I travel to great places for work, from red carpets in Rio, movie premieres in London to celebrity sit-downs in Bora Bora.

It's not easy, but I truly that think being a good listener is an important part of being a good journalist.

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

Rule number one of journalism is that trying to get in between a journalist and a story he wants to tell is like trying to stop a herd of stampeding cattle.

I'm a journalist. I've been a journalist ever since I was 18.

'All the President's Men' is a movie that has a very personal place for me because it made me want to be a journalist, and then it made me want to be a filmmaker.

What got me into making movies was that I wanted to be a journalist.

I wanted to go to college to be a journalist and follow in my dad's work. And then I became an actor.

If I hadn't have been good enough at football, I'd have been a sports journalist - which is what I do now anyway. Or a cricketer. I might have been a cricketer.

The journalist must do his work in a kind of deliberately induced state of moral anarchy.

I never actually went anywhere when I was a journalist. I was a critic, and I just sort of got stuff in the mail and chatted about it.

As a journalist, you don't tend to interview people with a view to becoming their friend. You can't expect that. It's not professional.