Walt Mossberg Quotes

I knew I was going to be a journalist when I was eight years old and I saw the printing presses rolling at the Sydney newspaper where my dad worked as a proofreader.

I studied journalism, though I never really became a scribe.

I've never wanted to do anything but be a newspaperman ever since I was 13.

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

I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it.

My favorite thing is still journalism. I'm almost 50. This has been my life ever since I was in college.

I had discovered journalism to be my life's ambition.

I've always thought of myself as a journalist; that was what I did.

I wrote to the local news guy when I was 12 years old. I said, 'What do I need to do to be you one day?'

I recognize that I had a good deal of good luck in my life. I came along at a time when it was pretty easy to get a job in journalism. I went to work at CBS News when I was about 22, and within a year or so was reporting on the air.

Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good.

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.

I think there's always satisfaction that comes from digging in and telling a story and being on the front line and writing about it. I think there's a venue available if you look. Even print journalism is in good shape in areas.

When I got a little older, I started writing for the high school newspaper, 'The Maroon Wave,' and that's when I fell in love with journalism.

I thought journalism would enable me to be a mile wide and an inch deep.

I'd been involved in journalism for a long time - my dad's a journalist, he's written many books, and when I was twelve years old I wrote reports on local football matches for the newspapers.

I'm a journalist - I'm not Robert Caro. I have a day job, and a pretty consuming one - a joyfully consuming one.

I became a journalist because one didn't have to specialise.

Chicago, with its big newspapers and major broadcasting stations, couldn't have been a better city to start a journalism career.

I was originally going to train as a journalist, passing a series of exams that winnowed ten thousand applicants down to one hundred places on a National Union of Journalists course.

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

I am not one of the great journalists of my time.

Actually, I graduated from university as a journalist.

Find out what happened and put it in the paper

I remember everyone in high school thought I should be a journalist because I looked like Connie Chung.