Anna Quindlen Quotes

My father was a journalist.

I grew up in newsrooms. I've been in newsrooms since I was 17 years old. Journalism has been like my church; it's been like my identity.

David Carr was one of the most gifted journalists who has ever worked at The New York Times.

I like journalists.

Journalists follow authority as sharks follow a liner, dining on the scraps that are thrown overboard.

There are a lot of people who think our job is to reassure the public every night that their home, their community and their nation is safe. I don't subscribe to that at all. I subscribe to leaving people with essentially … a rough draft of history. Some days it's reassuring, some days it's absolutely destructive.

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

No reporter of my generation, whatever his genius, ever really rated spats and a walking stick until he had covered both a lynching and a revolution.

Being a journalist seemed the ideal way of both having a job and experiencing the world, especially for anyone with a sense of adventure.

Journalism is one set of tools - one toolkit I have. One vocabulary, one lens.

I really admire really good reporters. Obviously not the gossip ones, but it could be quite an interesting profession, depending on what you're investigating.

She said she was working for the ABC news, it was as much of the alphabet as she knew how to use.

Essentially, there is no media, folks. There just isn't any media in the sense that there are reporters out there uncovering things you and I don't know and telling us what they are.

I am not a new journalist, whatever that is. I just sit here at the typewriter and bang away at the old forms.

The plain truth is that the reporter's trade is for young men. Your feet, which do the legwork, are nine times more important than your head, which fits the facts into a coherent pattern.

I think there are a lot of great journalists out there. I don't find much fault in the journalist in general; I think everybody would like to break a good story.

Journalism is the only thinkable alternative to working.

My dream was to do political journalism.

I've always thought of myself as a journalist; that was what I did.

Any of us who've been newspapermen for a long time hate generalizations.

I'm not a politician; I'm a journalist.

I love journalism.

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

I think of myself as a journalist first and foremost.

If you're in journalism, the U.S. - and New York City in particular - is an exciting place to work.