Michael Wolff Quotes

I coauthored my first nonfiction book by the time I was 25. I have been involved in nonfiction documentaries, newspapers, TV and internet since that time.

I started as a print reporter.

I loved being at the 'Times,' and they were incredibly good to me. I think it's a wonderful paper, and I was really well edited.

I've been in this business now for almost ten years. I've done a lot of stories. I have a pretty good track record.

I wanted no other job than to work in newspapers. I was fascinated by the process of collecting information, talking to people and having the story appear in a paper that would be delivered in your letterbox.

I had a great editor, Rebecca Corbett, from the time I was a city reporter right through to the years I worked on the 'Sun's' enterprise reporting team.

I was a freelancer at CNN during the second semester of my senior year at George Washington University.

My daughter writes and is the editor of her school magazine.

What is a magazine? A small body of Literature entirely surrounded by advertisements.

I was the editor of the 'News of the World;' I was the editor of the 'Sun' and chief executive.

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

I co-founded 'bOING bOING' magazine and the 'Boing Boing Blog' and was an editor at 'Wired' from 1993-1998.

The reporter wrote with the hope that he would get a by-line in the Times, a testimony to his being alive on that day and all the tomorrows of microfilm.

Regardless, I did rise to the editorship before embarking on a freelance career in the late '60's.

I've never wanted to do anything but be a newspaperman ever since I was 13.

I have no intention of becoming a shorthand author.

I think there's always satisfaction that comes from digging in and telling a story and being on the front line and writing about it. I think there's a venue available if you look. Even print journalism is in good shape in areas.

But I want to do good work, after this series.

He was the editor of our paper. He created the publishing house in Hebrew. He was - I wouldn't say the 'guru' - but really he was our teacher and a most respected man. I wrote for the paper of the youth movement.

I wrote for a weekly magazine and then edited a literary magazine, but I did not really feel comfortable with the profession of journalism itself.

I wrote newspaper articles professionally for seven years, and I love newspapers.

You can't hold up a blog; you can hold up a magazine.

The deadlines are much, much longer with books. When I was a reporter, a lot of times I'd come in at 8:30 a.m., get an assignment right away, interview somebody, turn the story in by 9:30, and have the finished story in the paper that landed on my desk by noon.

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.

I used to be a print reporter.