Kevin Barry Quotes

A big part of reporting is just being present. You have to show up ten days in a row to get the one telling detail.

Newspaper men, perhaps more than any other class, are rated by ability.

Journalism is a craft that takes years to learn. It's like golf. You never get it right all the time. It's a game of fewer errors, better facts, and better reporting.

I mean, journalism is very detailed... you try to get down in the weeds and sort out exactly what happened. And I don't think that a feature film is really a place where that happens.

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

I was not very good at newspaper reporting. I'm just not quick enough, and I always tend to tell things as stories.

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 think of myself as a journalist first and foremost.

I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter.

As a journalist, the details always tell the story.

I wasn't the greatest reporter in the world, but I wasn't starting at zero.

See, I have no journalism in my background, so I wasn't practised at research or writing non-fiction, nor at handling the truth in a journalistic way. Journalists know when to call a halt and write something, but I kept on looking for answers.

Journalism is literature in a hurry.

I'm a lousy journalist.

My father was a journalist.

Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.

I continue to enjoy looking for stories, and trying to do the best job I can reporting and writing them.

I think the most important thing journalism taught me is to mine for details. The details are key. You can't try to be funny or strange or poignant; you have to let the details be funny or strange or poignant for you.

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

Obviously, in journalism, you're confined to what happens. And the tendency to embellish, to mythologize, it's in us. It makes things more interesting, a closer call. But journalism taught me how to write a sentence that would make someone want to read the next one.

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.

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

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

Journalism is not an exact science. At best it i a crude art.