Roy Thomson Quotes

I don't have a college degree. I started working at 19 on a tiny newspaper. I've covered everything from weddings to crime to criminal weddings.

I'm a journalist, so my friends are journalists: magazines, newspapers, even public radio. Nobody had their kids in public school.

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

I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.

I wanted to be a journalist. I used to write articles at university about politics.

I loved writing for the school newspaper. I liked to report and interview people, but I really liked to write columns, funny columns.

I'm in the reporting part of journalism.

I think any journalist who spends time in a place realizes that there are lots of stories around beyond their primary story. You meet so many interesting people and have all kinds of experiences.

When I'm anchoring, I miss chasing stories in the field.

I expected to go into journalism or law.

The fundamentals of what journalism is about don't necessarily change. What will change is the delivery of news.

I'm a journalist; I love doing interviews, and I hope that will continue.

I think of myself as a journalist and a storyteller.

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

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

I had never been out covering a story, but boy, was that fun.

I used to be a journalist.

Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it.

You have to go where the story is to report on it. As a journalist, you're essentially running to things that other people are running away from.

I think there's always satisfaction that comes from digging in and telling a story and being on the front line and writing about it. I think there's a venue available if you look. Even print journalism is in good shape in areas.

When I got a little older, I started writing for the high school newspaper, 'The Maroon Wave,' and that's when I fell in love with journalism.

My function is, as objectively and accurately as I can, to present reality to people out there, and doing that as quickly as we do is quite difficult enough, thank you.

I thought journalism would enable me to be a mile wide and an inch deep.

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

I wrote for a weekly magazine and then edited a literary magazine, but I did not really feel comfortable with the profession of journalism itself.