#journal

I don't keep a journal. ↗

— Chris Evans

#journal #keep

An English journalist called Michael Viney told me when I was 25, that I would write well if I cared a lot what I was writing about. That worked. I went home that day and wrote about parents not understanding their children as well as we teachers did, and it was published the very next week. ↗

— Maeve Binchy

#called #cared #children #day #did

Journalism is what maintains democracy. It's the force for progressive social change. ↗

— Andrew Vachss

#democracy #force #journalism #maintains #progressive

I think people can learn from my experience - you know, any young people who are under pressure, whether you work on Wall Street or you work in a factory in Alabama, and young journalists. ↗

— Jayson Blair

#any #experience #factory #i #i think

No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#express #ideas #journalist #them

My comments are reserved for reputable journalists. ↗

— Ward Churchill

#journalists #reputable #reserved

Journalists, especially English journalists, were very cruel to me. They said I only knew three chords when I knew five! ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#cruel #english #especially #five #i

It's a journalist's job to be a witness to history. We're not there to worry about ourselves. We're there to try and get as near as we can, in an imperfect world, to the truth and get the truth out. ↗

— Robert Fisk

#get #history #imperfect #job #journalist

Deep in my heart it still feels like I'm a journalist even though I haven't worked for a paper and carried a press pass for 14 years. ↗

— Michael Connelly

#deep #even #feels #haven #heart

I wrote my first real murder story as a journalist for the Daytona Beach News Journal in 1980. It was about a body found in the woods. Later, the murder was linked to a serial killer who was later caught and executed for his crimes. ↗

— Michael Connelly

#beach #body #caught #crimes #daytona