Quotes About Journalism

I couldn't have been the novelist I was without being the journalist I was.

My dad was very successful as a journalist, so I didn't want to be one. I wanted to be a novelist.

I wrote about four novels before I wrote a word of journalism.

Certainly I'm still mining my experiences as a journalist. I think it's no coincidence that all three of my novels basically are about how people act in a time of catastrophe. Do they go to their best self or their worst self?

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.

I think you've got be willing as an interviewer to ask the dumb question every now and then.

Nowadays I'm not even sure if newspapers take into account whether a person is a good writer.

This brought on the news media, TV crews, interviews, and numerous public appearances.

You're never going to hear me say, 'Well, I've been critical of Obama five times, so now I need to be critical of McCain five times.' That is a false equivalence, and that's what I think is wrong with journalism.

It's hardly news that the Obama administration is intensely and, in many respects, unprecedentedly hostile toward the news-gathering process.

For years I wrote newspaper columns mostly about the teams in my city. There was no cheering in the press box, and I fought to remain objective.

When I was in journalism school, you were taught to be completely objective. But we don't see that anymore.

I'm a little concerned about this notion everybody wants us to be objective.

I was a lousy journalist. I could never be objective. Sometimes I invented the whole story.

I realized I couldn't be a journalist because I like to take a side, to have an opinion and a point a view; I liked to step across the imaginary boundary of the objective view that the journalist is supposed to have and be involved.

As for being an objective journalist? That's easy. I want what everyone else wants: the truth.

What I learned in school made me a better journalist and a better writer because forensic science is, as scientific disciplines must be, about critical thinking and objective analysis.

Journalists hold themselves apart, and above, the common person. They have rules designed to ensure their objectivity and impartiality.

I'm not a slave to objectivity. I'm never quite sure what it means. And it means different things to different people.

When you are being anti-lie or pro-truth, you come across as being anti-Trump or pro-Democrat, and it's a very tough thing for those of us who are just working journalists and still believe in the notion of objectivity.

To my mind, a journalist needs to espouse objectivity and distance, while a writer practises an art that is more free.

As a journalist, you want to try to maintain that objectivity and detachment.

As a journalist - or as a writer - my obligation is to come as close to the truth as I possibly can. And that's not as close to someone else's truth, but the truth as I see it.

Anil Sethi told me to get into journalism. The thought got into my head, that I could see things, write about them. I used to, anyhow, roam around, observe and describe things I saw.