#columnist

Teamwork is better than isolation, especially for a columnist. ↗

— Allan Sloan

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When I started writing a business column 15 years ago, I knew I'd found the perfect job for myself. As a columnist I could pick my own topic, do my own analysis, say what I wanted to say and attribute it to myself. Best of all, I could write in my own voice. ↗

— Allan Sloan

#analysis #attribute #best #business #column

I wanted to be a columnist so badly that I took a huge pay cut to leave Forbes, which wouldn't give me a column, and join Newsday, which wanted my column for its Sunday business section. ↗

— Allan Sloan

#business #column #columnist #cut #forbes

The major gossip columnists were more concerned with protecting the industry than with gunning down sinners. ↗

— Gloria Swanson

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Report, report, report. Dig, dig, dig. Think, think, think. Don't stop being a reporter because you've become a columnist. ↗

— Allan Sloan

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Don't commit to being a columnist unless you're willing to do it right. Report your behind off, so you have something original and useful to say. Say it in a way that will interest someone other than you, your family and your sources. ↗

— Allan Sloan

#being #columnist #commit #family #interest

Mother is the first word that occurs to politicians and columnists and popes when they raise the question, 'Why isn't life turning out the way we want it?' ↗

— Mary Kay Blakely

#first #life #mother #occurs #out

A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call a politician. ↗

— Max Lerner

#being #call #columnist #dream #politician

All of the qualities that you need to be a good opinion columnist tend to be qualities that aren't valued in women. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#good #good opinion #need #opinion #qualities

As a columnist, I realize that whatever amount of corruption I expose, half my readers will block it out, although they may get a frisson of joy in the process. ↗

— Margaret Carlson

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