One of my lifelong hobbies has been to collect ‘aptronyms’ – the newspaper columnist Franklin P. Adams’s term for people whose names were curiously appropriate to, or provided ironic comment on, their occupations. – Timothy Noah
I know so many acting careers that are deliberately kickstarted by a publicist placing a bit of rubbish in a newspaper. And I don’t want that. If someone recognises me, I want it to be because they’ve seen me in something, not because they have seen me at something. – Sophia Myles
When the BBC decided to bring Doctor Who back as a feature film a few years ago, one national newspaper ran a poll to ask its readers who should be the new Doctor, and I topped it. – Simon Callow
I went to a large consolidated school in Appalachia. And I wrote the story when I was in the second grade and I took it up to the third floor to the school newspaper office that was written and edited by juniors and seniors. – Tom Robbins
I am glad I worked on a newspaper because it made me know I had to write whether I felt like it or not. – Susan Glaspell
The newspaper is dying. I’m not sure there will be newspapers and its one business I’d never be in. – Sumner Redstone
You will read in the newspaper more often about federal courts, but the law that affects people, the trials that affect human beings are by and large in the state courts. – Stephen Breyer
The newspaper is, in fact, very bad for one’s prose style. That’s why I gravitated towards feature stories where you get a little more leeway in the writing style. – Tom Wolfe
The first newspaper I worked on was the ‘Springfield Union’ in Springfield, Massachusetts. I wrote over a hundred letters to newspapers asking for work and got three responses, two no’s. – Tom Wolfe
People think that if they read something in the newspaper or see it on TV, it has to be true. – Tammy Faye Bakker
The smaller newspapers probably won’t have any critics at all. Maybe that’s not such a bad thing because there’s a certain level of seriousness that you can’t get with a small newspaper for critics. – Terry Teachout
The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication. – Theodore Sturgeon
It’s nice to know about something as soon as it happens, and obviously a newspaper can’t provide that. – Tabitha Soren
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it. – Thomas Jefferson
Some story appears in some newspaper that says that somebody said X, Y, and Z, and a customer says, I don’t understand what they’re talking about – we’re running that product, we’ve been using it for five years, what are they talking about? – Sanjay Kumar
I happen to have a public profile. Ditto newspaper editors. It’s a result of what I do, not an end. – Steve Coogan
Newspaper reporting is really storytelling. We call our articles ‘stories,’ and we try to tell them in a way that even people who don’t know all the background can understand them. – Serge Schmemann