#columnist

Do not be taken in by 'insiderisms.' Fledgling columnists, eager to impress readers with their grasp of journalistic jargon, are drawn to such arcane spellings as 'lede.' Where they lede, do not follow. ↗

— William Safire

#columnists #drawn #eager #follow #grasp

The wonderful thing about being a New York Times columnist is that it's like a Supreme Court appointment - they're stuck with you for a long time. ↗

— William Safire

#appointment #being #columnist #court #like

It's kind of hard to spend long hours trying to help people and then find out that the favorite game of the columnist is to sit back and second guess you and try to find something that you did wrong. ↗

— Bill Scott

#columnist #did #favorite #find #game

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

#amount #block #columnist #corruption #expose

It's a good thing that columnists don't make homosexuality their last taboo anymore. But I wish the columnists themselves would come out too. ↗

— Michael Musto

#anymore #columnists #come #good #good thing

The permanent power brokers of this city are the columnists. ↗

— Hugh Newell Jacobsen

#city #columnists #permanent #power

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

— Allan Sloan

#become #being #columnist #dig #report

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