Diane Sawyer Quotes

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

In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat.

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

People often talk about parachute journalism, but one of the skills that you get when you are a correspondent is the ability to look at facts fast and work out what the story is.

The most profound lessons about journalism I've learned have been taught to me by the people I've covered.

I know we journalists have a reputation for being cynics. We do. It's our job to question - everything.

Journalism is not writing.

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

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

I think that a great newspaper is one that puts a real premium on digging to get the story behind the story.

At the end of the day, there is still one function of journalism that cannot be computerized, and that is reporters. You're always going to need reporters.

Reporters have to use their imagination, really put themselves in the shoes of the person they want to interview.

I'm not an advocacy journalist - that's not what I do. My role in journalism is to be able to engage the most interesting people with the best ideas.

I'm in the business, as a journalist, of asking tough questions.

There are a lot of really good skills you get from doing journalism - it completely changed my world and how I interact with other people.

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

There are so many journalists out there, I hate to say it, who are lazy and don't do their research - and it shows.

Journalism: an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space.

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'm a journalism junkie.

Anybody who's spent thirteen or fourteen years in print journalism has a lot of stories he thinks were inwardly satisfying as far as preparation, understanding, and diligence.

I'm a reporter by nature, I want to know everything.

I love journalism.

I think of myself as a journalist first and foremost.

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