“The real news is bad news.”
“Bad manners make a journalist.”
“Journalism is organized gossip.”
“Journalism is literature in a hurry.”
“Journalism is the entertainment business.”
“Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.”
“The press is like the air, a chartered libertine.”
“Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.”
“A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.”
“I find I journalize too tediously. Let me try to abbreviate.”
“Write the news as if your very life depended on it. It does!”
“Journalism could be described as turning one's enemies into money.”
“Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.”
“The facts fairly and honestly presented; truth will take care of itself.”
“Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it.”
“If you can't get a job as a pianist in a brothel you become a royal reporter.”
“The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.”
“A professional whose job it is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.”
“If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.”
“Now he is a statesman, when what he really wants is to be what most reporters are, adult delinquents.”
“Journalists belong in the gutter because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets.”
“Europe has a press that stresses opinions; America a press, radio, and television that emphasize news.”
“I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.”
“Journalism consists largely in saying ''Lord James is dead'' to people who never knew Lord James was alive.”
“Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.”
“I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in my column.”
“Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.”
“In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation.”
“Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers another.”
“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.”