But What Is The Difference Between Literature And Journalism? …Journalism Is Unreadable And Literature Is Not Read. That Is All.
- Oscar Wilde
All Successful Newspapers Are Ceaselessly Querulous And Bellicose. They Never Defend Anyone Or Anything If They Can Help It; If The Job Is Forced On Them, They Tackle It By Denouncing Someone Or Something Else.
- H. L. Mencken
The Man Who Reads Nothing At All Is Better Educated Than The Man Who Reads Nothing But Newspapers.
- Thomas Jefferson
Newspapermen Learn To Call A Murderer ‘An Alleged Murderer’ And The King Of England ‘The Alleged King Of England’ To Avoid Libel Suits.
- Stephen Leacock
Rock Journalism Is People Who Can’t Write Interviewing People Who Can’t Talk For People Who Can’t Read.
- Frank Zappa
Once A Newspaper Touches A Story, The Facts Are Lost Forever, Even To The Protagonists.
- Norman Mailer
Literature Is The Art Of Writing Something That Will Be Read Twice; Journalism What Will Be Read Once.
- Cyril Connolly
To Read A Newspaper Is To Refrain From Reading Something Worthwhile. The First Discipline Of Education Must Therefore Be To Refuse Resolutely To Feed The Mind With Canned Chatter.
- Aleister Crowley
Every Journalist Has A Novel In Him, Which Is An Excellent Place For It.
- Russel Lynes
Journalism Largely Consists Of Saying ‘Lord Jones Is Dead’ To People Who Never Knew That Lord Jones Was Alive.
- G. K. Chesterton
You Must Have A Room, Or A Certain Hour Or So A Day, Where You Don’t Know What Was In The Newspapers That Morning… A Place Where You Can Simply Experience And Bring Forth What You Are And What You Might Be.
- Joseph Campbell
A Newspaper Consists Of Just The Same Number Of Words, Whether There Be Any News In It Or Not.
- Henry Fielding
People Everywhere Confuse What They Read In Newspapers With News.
- A. J. Liebling
Rage Is The Only Quality Which Has Kept Me, Or Anybody I Have Ever Studied, Writing Columns For Newspapers.
- Jimmy Breslin
I Do Not Take A Single Newspaper, Nor Read One A Month, And I Feel Myself Infinitely The Happier For It.
Trying To Determine What Is Going On In The World By Reading Newspapers Is Like Trying To Tell The Time By Watching The Second Hand Of A Clock.
- Ben Hecht
Trying To Be A First-Rate Reporter On The Average American Newspaper Is Like Trying To Play Bach’s ‘St. Matthew’s Passion’ On A Ukulele.
- Bagdikian's Observation
It’s Amazing That The Amount Of News That Happens In The World Every Day Always Just Exactly Fits The Newspaper.
- Jerry Seinfeld
Editor: A Person Employed By A Newspaper, Whose Business It Is To Separate The Wheat From The Chaff, And To See That The Chaff Is Printed.
- Elbert Hubbard
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