1. Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.-John Hersey
2. 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.-Harold Evans
3. Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It’s absolutely unavoidable. A journalist is someone who looks at the world and the way it works, someone who takes a close look at things every day and reports what she sees, someone who represents the world, the event, for others. She cannot do her work without judging what she sees.-Marguerite Duras
4. Journalism could be described as turning one’s enemies into money.-Craig Brown
5. Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.-Karl Kraus
6. There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and to shame the devil.-Walter Lippmann
7. Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible.-Clive Owen
8. Journalism never admits that nothing much is happening.-Mason Cooley
9. I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.-Tom Stoppard
10. Journalism is an immense power, that threatens soon to supersede sermons, lectures, and books.-Theodore Tilton
11. Journalism is a kind of profession, or craft, or racket, for people who never wanted to grow up and go out into the real world.-Harry Reasoner
12. Journalism is about covering important stories-with a pillow, until they stop moving.-David Burge
13. Journalism is straying into entertainment. The lines between serious news segments, news entertainment, and news comedy are blurring.-Drew Curtis
14. A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.-Graham Greene
15. Journalism is an act of faith in the future.-Ann Curry
16. Junk journalism is the evidence of a society that has got at least one thing right, that there should be nobody with the power to dictate where responsible journalism begins.-Tom Stoppard
17. Every good journalist is aware that his trade may one day go the way of phrenology and, what’s more, the population will hardly protest the extinction.-David Remnick
18. Journalism an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space.-Rebecca West
19. The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.-Oscar Wilde
20. Journalists cover words and delude themselves into thinking they have committed journalism.-Hedrick Smith
21. Great is journalism. Is not every able editor a ruler of the world, being the persuader of it?-Thomas Carlyle
22. Journalism, like democracy, is not something that is achieved. It is a work in progress, and not every day is as good as the last.-John Maxwell Hamilton
23. Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault.-Henry Anatole Grunwald
24. Journalism, some huge percentage of it, should be devoted to putting pressure on power, on nonsense, on chicanery of all kinds and if that’s going to invite a lawsuit, well, bring it on.-David Remnick
25. Journalism is about results. It’s about affecting your community or your society in the most progressive way.-Anas Aremeyaw Anas
26. When journalism is silenced, literature must speak. Because while journalism speaks with facts, literature speaks with truth.-Seno Gumira Ajidarma
27. Journalism is always the art of the incomplete. You get bits and pieces.-Anthony Shadid
28. Journalism should never be prostituted for selfish ends or for the sake of merely earning a livelihood or, worse still, for amassing money.-Mahatma Gandhi
29. In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.-Ellen Goodman