I liked journalism and thought it was important, certainly more important than fiction. I’d probably still be doing it if I hadn’t been elbowed out. – Jim Crace
I think you can do a lot with fiction, and in some cases you can say even more in fiction than you can in straight-up documentary journalism. – Jamie Johnson
Chicago, with its big newspapers and major broadcasting stations, couldn’t have been a better city to start a journalism career. – Irv Kupcinet
Well, to be honest I think I tell less truth when I write journalism than when I write fiction. – Julian Barnes
The problem today isn’t low-quality journalism, it’s too much noise. If one out of five ‘Business Insider’ stories is original, the other four would be culled. – Jason Calacanis
I got ‘The Red White and Blue’ out of journalism. It puts you in touch with the world. – John Gregory Dunne
I was sports editor for my high school newspaper, but I think I shied away from journalism. – Jenna Bush
As an old creative industry full of cruelty and moral sense, British journalism once flourished on the imperative that people required the truth in order to survive. But people don’t require that now. They want sensation and they want it for nothing. – Andrew O’Hagan
The thing that bothers me about journalism is the false equivalency we sometimes place on certain issues. – Campbell Brown
My freshman year at Harrison High School, I saw a journalism class where students were putting out a weekly newspaper. It touched a responsive chord in me. – Irv Kupcinet
Many fiction writers write for the critics or for themselves; they forget the common reader. I never do. I don’t think journalism clashes with my fiction; on the contrary, it helps enormously. – Isabel Allende
The dirty little secret of journalism is that it really isn’t a profession, it’s a craft. All you need is a telephone and a conscience and you’re all set. – Andrew Sullivan
I want the news delivered unbiased. I thought that was the whole point with journalism. – Aaron McGruder
The Defense Department’s plan to ban newspaper reporters from pool coverage of military operations is incredible. It reveals the administration to be out of touch with journalism, reality and the First Amendment. – Arthur Ochs Sulzberger
In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation. – Anthony Sampson
I think there’s always satisfaction that comes from digging in and telling a story and being on the front line and writing about it. I think there’s a venue available if you look. Even print journalism is in good shape in areas. – Cameron Crowe
The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it. – Alexander Cockburn
Some in journalism consider themselves apart from and to some extent above the people they purport to serve. – Brit Hume
So much of journalism is conveying a place and time that existed, to someone at a later date: giving a person the context and trying to make them feel as informed as if they were actually there. – Chris Milk
The meat-and-potatoes work of world journalism is performed by the wire service reporters. – Bob Greene
And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place. – Christiane Amanpour
Fiction just has a lot more room for ambivalence and internal conflict, contradiction, and for me that sums up so much of what people felt after 9/11 – confusion even. And I think that’s hard to capture in journalism. – Amy Waldman
Choosing my favorite moment in journalism would be like picking a favorite among my children. I can’t pick one favorite. – Bill Keller
Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That’s why my hero, admittedly a flawed one, is a journalist. – Andrew Vachss