Daniel Handler Quotes

This much we know: Journalism is not a precise science. It's, on its best day, is a crude art. We make mistakes; I make mistakes. With more than 50 years as a journalist, I have at least had the opportunity to blow more stories, make more mistakes than maybe anybody in television.

It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about.

We are in the business of gathering the news. We're not in the business of talking about the news.

Profiles aren't journalism.

I love journalism.

I'm a journalist. I've been a journalist ever since I was 18.

I've been a journalist for too long to stop calling myself a journalist, and also when I'm doing 'Fake or Fortune?' I'm going through a rigorous investigation.

I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter.

Having been a journalist for thirty-nine years, I've developed a pretty thick skin.

I feel like, in some ways, I'm just a journalist.

As journalists, we keep pushing and pushing.

The big moment for me was making 'All the President's Men'. It was not about Watergate or President Nixon. I wanted to focus on something I thought not many people knew about: How do journalists get the story?

I used to be a journalist.

I'm a journalist and that's what I do.

I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.

I would like to know that when I read the paper in the morning, it's telling me something that actually happened, and I think the vast majority of journalists want the same thing.

I like being involved in the lighter side of journalism because it serves a purpose, and it's fun. And I can keep my opinions off camera if I want.

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

I'm not an advocacy journalist - that's not what I do. My role in journalism is to be able to engage the most interesting people with the best ideas.

Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.

We in the media should be breaking the news and not making the news.

I know of no more patriotic group than television journalists.

From forty years' experience of the wretched guess-work of the newspapers of what is not done in the open daylight, and of their falsehood even as to that, I rarely think them worth reading, and almost never worth notice.

We are a better country because the press gets 1000 facts right every day.

Find out what happened and put it in the paper