Newspaper Quotes

I think a newspaper should be provocative, stir 'em up, but you can't do that on television. It's just not on.

Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

Hollywood is right. A good and strong movie can have a more powerful social impact than any and all political speeches or newspaper editorials and columns.

Call it vanity, call it arrogant presumption, call it what you wish, but I would grope for the nearest open grave if I had no newspaper to work for, no need to search for and sometimes find the winged word that just fits, no keen wonder over what each unfolding day may bring.

I read about eight newspapers in a day. When I'm in a town with only one newspaper, I read it eight times.

These newspaper reporters... ever since Sullivan versus New York Times... have got a license to lie.

For many years I was engaged in journalism, writing articles and chronicles for the daily press without ever joining the staff of any newspaper.

I always had to prove myself through my actions. Be a cheerleader. Be class president. Be the editor of the newspaper.

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.

In my opinion, any man who can afford to buy a newspaper should not be allowed to own one.

I couldn't open up a magazine, you couldn't read a newspaper, you couldn't turn on the TV without hearing about the obesity epidemic in America.

The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication.

When you're true to yourself - not the audience that reads about me in the newspaper or sees a clip someplace, but the audience that actually comes and watches, just like Oprah - they get to know you and they sense something genuine.

The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper.

The future regulatory arrangements for the newspaper industry need to be done in a much calmer deliberative way, in slower time when we've got beyond this media firestorm.

In a newspaper, you only have so much room. It teaches you the value of getting to the point, of not pampering yourself with your glorious writing. I've always been much more interested in one powerful sentence that stays with you. That's my style.

Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.

Don't worry over what the newspapers say. I don't. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents - but when you tell the truth to them they are at sea.

Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.

The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a newspaper editor and went back to college.

For the last year I've been at Stanford University as a student and I've had time to read the newspaper.

The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.

Open your newspaper - any day of the week - and you will find a report from somewhere in the world of someone being imprisoned, tortured or executed because his opinions or religion are unacceptable to his government.

Suddenly the whole imagination of writing and editorial and newspaper and all these presumptions about who am I reading this, and who else other people may be, and all that, it's so grimly brutal!

I think that the days when newspaper barons could basically click their fingers and governments would snap to attention have gone.