Alissa Quart Quotes

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

I feel like, in some ways, I'm just a journalist.

The dirty little secret of journalism is that it really isn't a profession, it's a craft. All you need is a telephone and a conscience and you're all set.

As a journalist, the details always tell the story.

I had - all my life, everybody who knew me thought that I would probably grow up to be a reporter, a newspaper reporter because we didn't have much television in those days.

I started as a print reporter.

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.

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

My job as a reporter is not to know what I think.

Rule number one of journalism is that trying to get in between a journalist and a story he wants to tell is like trying to stop a herd of stampeding cattle.

Journalism is not writing.

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

Journalists prize independence - not teamwork.

I always wanted to be a serious journalist.

I never knew what a reporter looked like.

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

I think of myself as a journalist and a storyteller.

I was once a journalist. And I think of myself as a journalist, and that's it. You tell the truth. I even wrote a book called 'The Truth'.

Reporters aren't actually people!

If you're a journalist - and I think, on some level, I'm a journalist, and proud to be a journalist, or a documentarian, however you want to describe it - part of what I do has to be the pursuit of the truth.

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

People who think there is something pedestrian about journalism are just ignorant.

I'm an inexperienced reporter, and I'm still learning.

I used to be a print reporter.

It's about being right and trying to get the facts and get the story right, and inform, you know, the readership or the viewership. And there are some reporters that do that.