Ernie Harwell Quotes

That's a paradox I've noticed, too: The news business held little romance for me, yet writing about it somehow stirred my affections.

A career in journalism suddenly lost its appeal.

I've been getting pulled from newspapers for my entire career.

I grew up with 'The Denver Post' and the 'Golden Transcript.' There was never a moment that I thought I'd work at the 'New York Times.' My goal, starting out, was just to see if I could be a journalist.

And I didn't, that's why my career was very short lived.

Veteran print editors and reporters at places like the 'Times' and 'The New Yorker' manage to feed and clothe their families without costing their companies a million bucks a month, and they produce a great deal more valuable reporting and analysis than the network news stars do.

I used to be a print reporter.

Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column.

I come from a long line of people that write. My folks ran a weekly newspaper.

If you're in the media, particularly newspapers, you are in the thick of all the interesting things that are going on in a community, and I can't imagine any other life that one would want to dedicate oneself to.

You will never have enough space in a tabloid paper to compete with the 'New York Times' on foreign coverage.

I was brought up in a publishing home, a newspaper man's home, and was excited by that, I suppose. I saw that life at close range and, after the age of ten or twelve, never really considered any other.

'The Daily News' and 'Post' gave me my life, and I want to see them survive.

Though I work in broadcasting and host a daily radio show, I got my start in print journalism.

Getting involved in a newsroom and seeing how it operated and the urgency of live television really got my attention.

I've never worked for a newspaper. I've had some very bad reviews in newspapers.

Newspapers . . . serve as chimnies to carry off noxious vapors and smoke.

I run a couple of newspapers. What do you do?

I hire a lot of hosts, reporters, producers, and I hire people who care about the news.

I love journalism.

I've basically worked as a journalist and a writer.

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

I accept that I didn't play very well in Italy for the two years. It was lower than my Ajax standard. I don't know why.

Missing the chance to go to the 2007 World Cup was the biggest disappointment of my career.

In 1999 and 2000, when I was a young editorial writer at the 'Post', the 'Post' won the public service medal two years running.