Christopher Hitchens Quotes

I always wanted to be part of the media. I knew I wanted to work as a journalist.

A career in journalism suddenly lost its appeal.

I've had a lot of fun, and when I talk to kids in journalism schools, I say, look, I know what the journalism teachers tell you that this is a great way to perform public service and all that, but I say the main reason, if you decide what you want to do is be a reporter, the main reason you want to do it is because it's just so much fun.

Journalism is a kind of profession, or craft, or racket, for people who never wanted to grow up and go out into the real world.

I knew I was going to be a journalist when I was eight years old and I saw the printing presses rolling at the Sydney newspaper where my dad worked as a proofreader.

Well, I don't know how astute I am, but I did want to be a journalist when I was growing up.

I liked journalism and thought it was important, certainly more important than fiction. I'd probably still be doing it if I hadn't been elbowed out.

I had discovered journalism to be my life's ambition.

I wanted to be a journalist so the character of a TV news person in 'Run Baby Run' was really interesting.

I studied journalism, though I never really became a scribe.

I grew up with 'The Denver Post' and the 'Golden Transcript.' There was never a moment that I thought I'd work at the 'New York Times.' My goal, starting out, was just to see if I could be a journalist.

I knew I wanted to be a journalist ever since I was a teenager. While it is interesting and gratifying to be on the business side and to see how that all works, the main reason I kept a business role here was to protect the editorial integrity of Salon.

I studied journalism at The University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill. I did my graduate work at Emerson in Boston, and I was actually a reporter for a year in New York and New Jersey. It dawned on me that I wasn't cut out for that line of work. I mean... there's a certain thing that really good reports have that I just didn't.

I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it.

My favorite thing is still journalism. I'm almost 50. This has been my life ever since I was in college.

What I learned at journalism school and at ABC - those skills are the same no matter where you are in the world.

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

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

It took me years to realize I wanted to be in journalism.

I ended up switching over to journalism in college. A few weeks into freshman year, I realized that business school wasn't for me. And writing stories and reading and talking to people is something that I just enjoy doing, so I figured why not try to build up a post-basketball career with that.

Very early in my career, I almost went to journalism school.

When I was in college, I walked by the journalism school every day on my way to my own classes, and that's the closest I've come to having any sort of journalism background.

Journalism is, indeed, a noble calling, and I have much I hope to accomplish in the next phase of my career.

That's a paradox I've noticed, too: The news business held little romance for me, yet writing about it somehow stirred my affections.

Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor is it a profession.