#journal

If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#absolute #absolute truth #cells #commodity #context

After I read all the medical journals and watched all the documentaries, I still didn't understand the physical sensation of ticking and where it comes from and what it feels like. ↗

— Robin Tunney

#comes #documentaries #feels #i #journals

Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding. ↗

— Kenneth Tynan

#artist #beyond #comprehensible #forever #himself

I always wanted to be a serious journalist. ↗

— Jeannette Walls

#i #i always #journalist #serious #wanted

It's hard to market a movie when you're at the mercy of critics and journalists. ↗

— Harvey Weinstein

#hard #journalists #market #mercy #movie

The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#clever people #journalists #lawyers #now #people

I like it when journalists are nice to me, and it's happening more and more. ↗

— Ron Wood

#i #journalists #like #me #more

Now I'm doing a film festival for kids and writing a script about a kidnapped journalist in Afghanistan. ↗

— Olivia Wilde

#afghanistan #doing #festival #film #film festival

I think journalism gets measured by the quality of information it presents, not the drama or the pyrotechnics associated with us. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#drama #gets #i #i think #information

You see, Monsieur, it's worth everything, isn't it, to keep one's intellectual liberty, not to enslave one's powers of appreciation, one's critical independence? It was because of that that I abandoned journalism, and took to so much duller work: tutoring and private secretaryship. There is a good deal of drudgery, of course; but one preserves one's moral freedom, what we call in French one's quant a soi. And when one hears good talk one can join in it without compromising any opinions but one's own; or one can listen, and answer it inwardly. Ah, good conversation--there's nothing like it, is there? The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing. And so I have never regretted giving up either diplomacy or journalism--two different forms of the same self-abdication." He fixed his vivid eyes on Archer as he lit another cigarette. "Voyez-vous, Monsieur, to be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it? But, after all, one must earn enough to pay for the garret; and I confess that to grow old as a private tutor--or a `private' anything--is almost as chilling to the imagination as a second secretaryship at Bucharest. Sometimes I feel I must make a plunge: an immense plunge. Do you suppose, for instance, there would be any opening for me in America-- in New York? ↗

— Edith Wharton

#journalism #liberty #age