Tom Stoppard Quotes

I don't think I ever wanted to be a journalist - I was more interested in what comes from being a journalist.

As a print journalist, you can be frustrated by people who don't call you back, parts of the story you can't get. TV gets you access to everyone because people call you back. It also allows you to satisfy your curiosity. I am a very curious person.

I'm a journalist; I love doing interviews, and I hope that will continue.

In fact, I spent 25 years as a reporter, swearing I would never become an editor. Sitting at a desk, watching other people go out and find the story, and then fussing with other people's words - I just didn't get the appeal of that.

Being a reporter seems a ticket out to the world.

I wanted to be a journalist because I like to ask questions. And I like the idea that someone might feel responsible for answering them.

I work like every journalist works so I have recordings, I have notes.

I'm a reporter. I'm not a scholar.

As a journalist, the details always tell the story.

My own career started in New York at the 'Associated Press', a fast-paced news agency where we rarely had time for deep reporting.

Someday perhaps I'll have to get a grownup job... but for now I'm having too much fun being a reporter.

I write articles, and I do profiles of members of organizations and associations.

Journalism, as concerns collecting information, differs little if at all from intelligence work. In my judgment, a journalist's job is very interesting.

My mother was a reporter, and though she quit when they had kids, she still loved it. She told me about the people at the paper and the articles she wrote. She had the best memory of anyone I know, and she could really tell a tale.

Newspapermen ask dumb questions. They look up at the sun and ask if it is shining.

I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a reporter. I don't know where I got the idea that it was a romantic calling.

All they expected me to do was rip and read the wire 'leads,' without doing any original reporting. It was pretty basic, but gave me a taste of how to combine my love of politics and broadcasting.

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

When you speak of the press, of course, you have to speak of different segments of the press. Reporters, straight reporters, wire services, you stick to the facts; you don't create the story, per se. You cover what is happening.

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

I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.

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.

That's the reason I left the networks. I wanted to write and report and coanchor.

Because I was once a reporter, I've always felt a sense of estrangement inside the newsroom. The field is alive and interactive, while the newsroom is quiet and stereotypical.

Journalism keeps you planted in the earth.