20th-century Journalist Quotes

Ernest Hemingway

George Orwell

José Saramago

Italo Calvino

Alberto Moravia

Julian Assange

Norman Mailer

Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee.

Anthony Sampson

What no wife of a writer can ever understand, no matter if she lives with him for twenty years, is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window.

Washington, D. C. is a city filled with people who believe they are important.

In a world where everyone is a publisher, no one is an editor and that is the danger we face today.

There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers.

Journalists belong in the gutter because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets.

Gerald Priestland

Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilized folk to despise war.

War, the ordinary man's most convenient means of escaping from the ordinary.

In what way can a revelation be made but by miracles? In none which we are able to conceive.

William S. Paley

Wounds which do extensive bone and nerve damage are not good for writers, nor anybody else.

Ernest Hemingway

Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.

I don't like to work with assistants. I'm already one too many; the camera alone would be enough.

Alfred Eisenstaedt

All politics are based on the indifference of the majority.

When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile.

The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists.

The real power, the power we have to fight for night and day, is not power over things, but over men

With thought, patience, and discrimination, book passion becomes the signature of a person's character.

Nicholas A. Basbanes

Why should people be expected to think about the meaning of life merely because they happen to be ill? That is just the time when there is no time to think about such things, because the body is so greedy for attention.

Ferdinand Mount

Iced tea is too pure and natural a creation not to have been invented as soon as tea, ice, and hot weather crossed paths.

John Egerton (journalist)

Isolationism as a stream of thought was hibernating. It was rarely articulated, but passionately held, waiting for someone like Trump to lead it. Isolationists were called the silent majority in Richard Nixon's days — even though Nixon was an internationalist, who built a strong relationship with China. Trump knew how to exploit the silent majority's mix of racism, grievances and xenophobia. He appealed to the vast national community of chronic blamers, anxious to locate the cause of American problems in China, thereby executing a double play of racism and xenophobia.

Robert Fulford (journalist)

Commercials on television are similar to sex and taxes; the more talk there is about them, the less likely they are to be curbed.

Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality.

It doesn't much matter whether people care or don't care. What matters is that people change the world.

Elizabeth Kolbert

I sometimes still go out hunting for bad weather, flying low in simple airplanes to explore the inner reaches of the clouds. Less experienced pilots occasionally join me, not to learn formal lessons about weather flying, but with a more advanced purpose in mind - to accompany me in the slow accumulation of experience through circumstances that never repeat in a place that defies mastery.

William Langewiesche

Indeed, the highest pleasure of golf may be that on the fairways and far from all the pressures of commerce and rationality, we can feel immortal for a few hours.

Colman McCarthy