June Lockhart Quotes

I wish more people read hard copies of the newspaper and watched the evening news from start to finish.

I've always read the papers but didn't feel I knew enough in the past. But doing the research and looking at newspapers and online websites gives you a 360-degree view of the news.

At least half my writing time is spent researching. So for every hour I'm actually clicking on the keyboard, I'm spending another hour trying to figure out some tiny detail I need answered.

You have to have really wide reading habits and pay attention to the news and just everything that's going on in the world: you need to. If you get this right, then the writing is a piece of cake.

Research to me is as important or more important than the writing. It is the foundation upon which the book is built.

I had been writing for about twelve years. I knew pretty well how you could find things out, but I had never been trained in an academic way how to go about the research.

I really enjoy researching, and for almost every piece, I research enough to write a book.

I am a hard-news journalist. That is what I do.

I do a lot of reading of news so I can be smarter, and I do a lot of watching TV news so I can know why Americans aren't very smart. Then I can point out the hypocrisy of politicians or the media.

The best way to get the news is from objective sources, and the most objective sources I have are people on my staff who tell me what's happening in the world.

I try to be well informed. I don't know how well I do all the time, but I try nonetheless.

I'm not sophisticated when it comes to politics, when it comes to journalism.

The heart and soul of good writing is research; you should write not what you know but what you can find out about.

I pay attention to the news. I take the 'New York Times.' I do the Saturday crossword.

I read 'The Washington Post' every day from a very young age. Reading the newspaper taught me how to organize my thoughts on the page. Meaning, it taught me how to write.

Reading the morning newspaper is the realist's morning . One orients one's attitude toward the either by or by what the world is. The former gives as much security as the latter, in that one knows how one stands.

Journalists like to talk and write and produce, but the most important part of that process is learning how to listen. And that's what makes you a good journalist.

You've got to do a lot of research. That's the biggest thing: I try to gather as much information as I can to maximize myself. Because if you're just standing still, you're going to be a dinosaur and everyone else will go around you. That's like my biggest fear.

I consume the news daily. I'm not avoiding it.

'Bombshell' is a remarkable podcast. In the course of it, three people who know what they are talking about cover 'military strategy, White House mayhem, and the best cocktails'.

I often read nonfiction, and some of my ideas begin there.

I read the newspapers with lively interest. It is seldom that they are absolutely, point-blank wrong. That is the popular belief, but those who are in the know can usually discern an embryo of truth, a little grit of fact, like the core of a pearl, round which have been deposited the delicate layers of ornament.

When I don't know the answer to something, I write a book about it because it gives me a chance to explore it and go to some people who do have the answers.

Our task is to listen to the news that is always arriving out of silence.

Any person that don't read at least one well-written country newspaper is not truly informed.