Michael Pollan Quotes

History, like journalism, is ever a journey outwards, and you must report back what you find and no more.

As a journalist, the details always tell the story.

If you're curious, you'll probably be a good journalist because we follow our curiosity like cats.

The great thing about journalism is that there is so much exposure to all kinds of people who can turn up later as characters, whether you intend it or not.

Report, report, report. Dig, dig, dig. Think, think, think. Don't stop being a reporter because you've become a columnist.

I go wherever the good story is.

You can't be a reporter using Google. It can be a tool. But you have to get out of the house.

Journalism is not writing.

A foreign correspondent is someone who lives in foreign parts and corresponds, usually in the form of essays containing no new facts. Otherwise he's someone who flies around from hotel to hotel and thinks that the most interesting thing about any story is the fact that he has arrived to cover it.

I approach stories as a private educational enterprise: I want to learn about something. I teach myself through research, reporting, and thinking, and then, when I feel like I know the story, I tell it to readers.

I really admire really good reporters. Obviously not the gossip ones, but it could be quite an interesting profession, depending on what you're investigating.

The book of Nature is that which the physician must read; and to do so he must walk over the leaves.

As a journalist, a big part of what you do is search for drama and conflict. And a lot of the backstory with 'Billions' is grounded in my journalistic background.

People often talk about parachute journalism, but one of the skills that you get when you are a correspondent is the ability to look at facts fast and work out what the story is.

Documentaries are a form of journalism.

I'm a journalist and, before, a next TV star.

I wanted to be a journalist because I like to ask questions. And I like the idea that someone might feel responsible for answering them.

Being a journalist always makes you a quick study of wherever you're at. You're out all the time and seeing places that normally you wouldn't get to see. It gives you an unusual level of insight into any place.

You witness a lot as a journalist, and what you witness becomes a part of you.

As a child, I loved being outdoors. Our house had a railway track going past it. Of course, Mum told us not to go near it and, of course, we did. There were amazing blackberry bushes growing all along it, and we collected the fruit.

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

I think of myself as a journalist first and foremost.

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

A big part of reporting is just being present. You have to show up ten days in a row to get the one telling detail.

I'm trying to grow more as a journalist and understand the story I'm photographing in order to communicate it in a better way.