Charles Oakley Quotes

Ultimately if you're a journalist, one day you're writing about figure skating, one day a political debate. I loved that about reporting. I like throwing my energies into various corners of the world.

The metro section of the newspaper every day is full of stuff I can use. It's the greatest inspiration for me because it's full of endings. That's where the ends of stories show up.

A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day.

I had an idea in the beginning to do a book about some of the events that I had covered, just various stories that I've covered. Reporters spend a lot of time telling each other tales about how they covered stories, and that's what this book started out to be.

Suddenly the whole imagination of writing and editorial and newspaper and all these presumptions about who am I reading this, and who else other people may be, and all that, it's so grimly brutal!

I was the editor of the 'News of the World;' I was the editor of the 'Sun' and chief executive.

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

A newspaper is a circulating library with high blood pressure.

All they expected me to do was rip and read the wire 'leads,' without doing any original reporting. It was pretty basic, but gave me a taste of how to combine my love of politics and broadcasting.

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.

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

News, news, news - that is what we want. You cannot beat news in a newspaper.

Headline writing is an art form.

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

I think every writer has got to direct. If you don't direct, you can't protect your work. The only way to ensure that it's going to be as close as possible to what you put down on paper - and what you see and hear in your head - is to do it yourself.

I don't think there's a difference between writing for a newspaper or magazine and doing a chapter in a book.

Profiles aren't journalism.

The press are the chroniclers of history as it is made.

I'm a journalism junkie.

Bloggers are not reporters.

Helping set the day's agenda and deciding what we used and editing it, that was a journalistic high point. I liked reporting as well. Just doing the news - the live performance - wasn't important. Working on the desk was.

That's my role, I go get news.

I always thought of myself as more of a columnist, but maybe a columnist who does reporting.

I think that my main business is as a news person.

I interact with journalists all the time, and I note how they behave.