Kara Swisher Quotes

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

As a journalist, the details always tell the story.

The further you go, what, I'm gonna wait til I'm 80? Naw, I'm tellin' my story now. I was just moved. I was moved to tell my story. You know? People write books all the time.

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

I was once a journalist. And I think of myself as a journalist, and that's it. You tell the truth. I even wrote a book called 'The Truth'.

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.

It's about being right and trying to get the facts and get the story right, and inform, you know, the readership or the viewership. And there are some reporters that do that.

I love collections. I got into journalism with the idea that I'd be doing them.

Journalism is not writing.

In college, I got an internship at my local station in Honolulu one summer, and I just fell in love with broadcast news, reporting, and storytelling. After college, I started out at NBC, and I worked behind the scenes at 'Today' and 'Dateline.'

I could learn how to press 'Record' on a tape recorder and write for a newspaper or a magazine.

Newspaper reporting is really storytelling. We call our articles 'stories,' and we try to tell them in a way that even people who don't know all the background can understand them.

I think of myself as a journalist and a storyteller.

I started as a print reporter.

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

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

I used to be a journalist.

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.

My 50th birthday approaching felt like a big milestone to me. I've lived half a century. If I write about food and use my life as a fulcrum to move the story along, maybe I've lived long enough to fashion a narrative that has a happy ending.

I have broken a lot of stories.

When I started working for Rolling Stone, I became very interested in journalism and thought maybe that's what I was doing, but it wasn't.

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

I really like the Observer. I think I'd love to have a column with a broad reach that would enable me to do some proper reporting, but keep it on sort of a humorous level. I've always had a very happy experience writing for them.

I've come to recognize what I call my 'inside interests.' Telling stories. And helping people tell their stories is a sort of interpersonal gardening. My work at NBC News was to report the news, but in hindsight, I often tried to look for some insight to share that might spark a moment of recognition in a viewer.