Sophie Kinsella Quotes

Scepticism is as important for a good journalist as it is for a good scientist.

I'm not rational enough to be a good journalist.

What I learned in school made me a better journalist and a better writer because forensic science is, as scientific disciplines must be, about critical thinking and objective analysis.

Great questions make great reporting.

I suppose I have very undesirable traits. I am very critical, which is very undesirable. But it is good from a business point of view.

I understand the difference between journalism and scholarship that comes 20 years later.

At CNN, our view is that good journalism equals good business.

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

Journalists are accused of being lapdogs when they don't ask the hard questions, but then accused of being rude when they do. Good thing we have tough hides.

Everybody, as soon as they do a good experiment, their first thought in this lab is, 'That can't be right. I must have screwed it up. What did I do wrong?' And that's the best kind of scientist because they're filled with this self-doubt. And if I'm going to be honest, that's who I am. And it's what drives me.

Not everyone realises that to write a really good piece of journalism is at least as demanding intellectually as the achievement of any scholar.

The heart and soul of good writing is research; you should write not what you know but what you can find out about.

If you have an analytical bent like I do, going back to my days as a programmer, you like to ask questions.

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.

You can't be a reporter using Google. It can be a tool. But you have to get out of the house.

I have long argued that no one should be allowed to write opinion without spending years as a reporter - nothing like interviewing all four eyewitnesses to an automobile accident and then trying to write an accurate account of what happened.

Journalists are often portrayed as cynical. I often think it's the opposite.

Part of my job is to read the paper, watch C-Span and show things that haven't been shown or were buried.

I listen to things that are popular and try to think about it in a mathematical way.

I'm not sure people would think of me in this light, but frankly, what I enjoyed most about Bain & Company, the consulting firm, was the analytical process of solving tough problems.

Journalists who swallow the subject's account whole and publish it are not journalists but publicists.

I want to be a journalist; I want to ask tough questions.

I'm a journalist. I've been a journalist ever since I was 18.

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

I learnt early that always being analytical is important for a business. Being analytical as an attitude is more important than just having the aptitude.