Lee Gutkind Quotes

I'm a reporter by nature, I want to know everything.

My best stories come from well-placed sources who point me in the right direction.

I love researching, I love interviewing.

As a journalist, you're always worried, 'Did I get the full story?'

I want to be a journalist; I want to ask tough questions.

Great questions make great reporting.

But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story.

My job is to get to the heart of a story, to find out what's really going on; to get it verified and, then, to get it out to as many people as possible as fast as.

Whenever you can bring your chops in as a reporter to unearth a cool story, that's always a good thing.

A hard-hitting investigative report that uncovers a nugget of genuine truth is the ultimate viral hit.

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.

A basic rule of life for reporters is that you should spend your time talking with and learning about people who are not sending you press releases, rather than those who are.

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.

What I love - and I'm a journalist - and what I love is finding hidden patterns; I love being a data detective.

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.

When I was in college, I did sort of want to be a journalist. Being an actor, you kind of have the same interest. You go into a story, and you tell it from your point of view for people who aren't there. That's what an actor does with a character. But the real life is more more interesting.

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.

Even the two novels I've written were based on true stories. It's how I'm wired - real life is fascinating and fantastical enough. The kind of journalism I did unpeeled lids from cans otherwise sealed.

I am an old journalist, so I always do a lot of research and dive deep into people's character, who they are, and their motivation.

I have found where I am best, and that is being a fact-checker and being fearless.

I never take ideas from the headlines. I feel that if a story is good enough, a real story that is, then it's already been covered by the media, and if it's not good enough, why would I want to bother with it?

Each story we approach in the same way, with curiosity and interest and determination to get behind the image.

As a journalist, the details always tell the story.

I'm in the reporting part of journalism.