Anne Roiphe Quotes

I am grateful to journalism for waking me up to the realities of the world.

As a journalist, I've felt as if it's a privilege that people share their stories and want you to be the messenger.... Even in my current job, when I go abroad, I'm racing to get back to the president and the secretary to share what I've seen.

The trend for documentaries will never go away, because everybody wants to learn about the world. The world is awful in parts, but there's always going to be briliant documentaries about it, and there's always going to be people who want to see them.

You break the story first, and then you go into the specifics.

I was going to save the world, and I thought I would start with the African continent.

There is so much wrong with the world. (tanta stat praedita culpa)

At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our national problems - the answer for all the problems of the world - come to a single word. That word is "education."

Here I am, a product of something really vicious, product of the Atlantic slave trade. And yet, I give nary a thought to some of the awful things happening right now in the world.

Look at the world. See the problem. And solve it

All nonfiction writers, whether they like it or not, are translators. The translator is the perfect journalist. The best journalism endeavors to convey an essential idea or story to an audience that knows very little about it, and that requires translation. To do this successfully, the writer must filter the idea through the prism of his eye, and his mind, and his writing style.

I believe that virtually all the problems in the world come from inequality of one kind or another.

We need to really do something about the world. Otherwise, we're all going to blow up together.

Storytelling comes naturally to humans, but since we live in an unnatural world, we sometimes need a little help doing what we'd naturally do.

If we had kept the vision of interconnectedness, we would not have created the kind of environmental crisis facing the world today.

As a journalist, your job is to bear witness.

The script is your map of the world, isn't it? And if someone knows that if it's well-written, you get all of the beats, it will tell you everything you need to know.

Some problems in the world are not bullet-izable.

We're living in a technological world. You cannot tell me we can't do a better job getting that information.

The whole world is a scab. The point is to pick it constructively.

I strongly believe that journalism is one of the most noble professions, because without an informed world, and without an informed society, we are weak, we are weak.

You know how many reasons we have to be desperate and despairing, the world is not learning anything. We have seen that.

What the world needs is not 'a little bit of love', but a surgical operation.

The news business is simple but it's not easy to do well. You know the story, you have to cover it, you need pictures, you need good writers, you have to get it to the screen but it's obviously not easy to do well.

You have 30% of the world unemployed, a huge amount of work, that needs to be done just rebuilding the society alone.

What kind of world is this? And what do you do about it? What do you do when the worst thing that can happen actually happens?