622 Quotes About Journalism

Dealing with the media is more difficult that bathing a leper

The thorn in the cushion of the editorial chair.

Profiles aren't journalism.

This is the sickest piece of journalism I have ever seen!

Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read

Most rock journalism is people who can not write interviewing people who can not talk

In journalism, if there's a hole in your story you figure out a way around it because you've got a 4 p.m. deadline. It's a neat skill to have but it's deadly for literature. In literature, you need to stare at that hole, not ignore it. You need to figure it out.

Each genre has its own process. I'm very intuitive about poetry. I usually write first and second drafts out by hand. The other end of the spectrum is journalism, which is much more cerebral, more thought-out and planned. Fiction lies somewhere in between. I usually start intuitively but eventually I need to stop and consider structure, or research, or both.

I think journalism can come from anywhere, and comedy can certainly come from anywhere.