Tabitha Soren Quotes

We have to compete in a universe of 200 networks, so we have to carve out our own niche, and to me, that niche is just basic shoe-leather journalism with some good journalists at the helm you can trust as presenters.

The big story of the day is always going to be driven by what's happened and by the facts and the events.

Even though writing articles relies completely on truth, you still must tell an interesting story. You can't worry about people knowing who you are and whether or not they want to read your stories.

There's nothing more exciting than to watch a story break and grow, and to be the first one to present it to the world.

I'm a journalist, and I'm a filmmaker. I have an organization that's all about telling stories.

It turned out I really didn't like journalism. I wanted to make up stories, not cover real events.

I have this vision of maybe going the way of Bill Kurtis and, I think, Tom Brokaw, to a certain extent - the ability to not be tied to the desk anymore, but to do projects that are meaningful to you.

Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.

There's fierce competition between all the networks to get the guest who can bring the most pertinent information about whatever the story of the moment happens to be.

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.

The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform.

I'm a writer. I've been a journalist for my whole adult life.

If you're in the media, particularly newspapers, you are in the thick of all the interesting things that are going on in a community, and I can't imagine any other life that one would want to dedicate oneself to.

I've basically worked as a journalist and a writer.

I always wanted to use my newspaper background in a novel.

I think part of the reason anyone goes into journalism is to get a response to what they write.

A lot of college graduates approach me about becoming screenwriters. I tell them, 'Do not become a screenwriter, become a journalist,' because journalists go into worlds that are not their own. Kids who go to Hollywood write coming-of-age stories for their first scripts, about what happened to them when they were sixteen. Then they write the summer camp script. At the age of twenty-three they haven't produced anything, and that's the end of the career.

When I'm in studio, we cover the news. But no one says the news has to be boring.

I think it's intelligent, emotional, character-rich storytelling - at the core, I think those are the most important elements, and I think they can be found across all of our dayparts. That's what, for me, ABC really stands for.

I love journalism.

Storytelling takes many forms, and even feature-length storytelling is often 90 minutes or two hours. There's nothing stopping us from trying to do that on a week-to-week basis.

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

I'm just drawn to something that has a good story. 'Outcasts' didn't do so well, but I really admired the premise behind the show.

I'm a writer of fiction. I try to write about my time, but it's dangerous if I'm seen as an investigative writer. I manipulate and change and control.

I will do stories which most of the audiences like.