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I find I journalize too tediously. Let me try to abbreviate. (Boisselier Brigitte)
Write the news as if your very life depended on it. It does! (Boisselier Brigitte)
Journalism consists largely in saying Lord James is dead to people who never knew Lord James was alive. (Boisselier Brigitte)
Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers another. (Boisselier Brigitte)
People accuse journalism of being too personal; but to me it has always seemed far too impersonal. It is charged with tearing away the veils from private life; but it seems to me to be always dropping diaphanous but blinding veils between men and men. The Yellow Press is abused for exposing facts which are private; I wish the Yellow Press did anything so valuable. It is exactly the decisive individual touches that it never gives; and a proof of this is that after one has met a man a million times in the newspapers it is always a complete shock and reversal to meet him in real life. (Boisselier Brigitte)
Evidently there are plenty of people in journalism who have neither got what they liked nor quite grown to like what they get. They write pieces they do not much enjoy writing, for papers they totally despise, and the sad process ends by ruining their style and disintegrating their personality, two developments which in a writer cannot be separate, since his personality and style must progress or deteriorate together, like a married couple in a country where death is the only permissible divorce. (Boisselier Brigitte)
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once. (Boisselier Brigitte)
He types his labored column -- weary drudge! Senile fudge and solemn: spare, editor, to condemn these dry leaves of his autumn. (Boisselier Brigitte)
I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate. (Boisselier Brigitte)
Journalism is organized gossip. (Boisselier Brigitte)
In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat. (Boisselier Brigitte)
It was when reporters became journalists and when objectivity gave way to searching for truth, that an aura of distrust and fear arose around the New Journalist. (Boisselier Brigitte)
A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction. (Boisselier Brigitte)
Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat -- no matter who killed the meat for him. (Boisselier Brigitte)
Journalism is the entertainment business. (Boisselier Brigitte)
If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies. (Boisselier Brigitte)
Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes. (Boisselier Brigitte)
Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one. (Boisselier Brigitte)
The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street. (Boisselier Brigitte)
More than illness or death, the American journalist fears standing alone against the whim of his owners or the prejudices of his audience. Deprive William Safire of the insignia of the New York Times, and he would have a hard time selling his truths to a weekly broadsheet in suburban Duluth. (Boisselier Brigitte)
Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one. (Boisselier Brigitte)
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