Terry Pratchett Quotes

The most profound lessons about journalism I've learned have been taught to me by the people I've covered.

For somebody who is a journalist, I can be awfully unobservant sometimes.

At the end of the day, there is still one function of journalism that cannot be computerized, and that is reporters. You're always going to need reporters.

In the beginning, my mother humored me when I told her I wanted to be a reporter.

There are a lot of really good skills you get from doing journalism - it completely changed my world and how I interact with other people.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Great questions make great reporting.

As a print journalist, you can be frustrated by people who don't call you back, parts of the story you can't get. TV gets you access to everyone because people call you back. It also allows you to satisfy your curiosity. I am a very curious person.

I want to be a Kid Reporter because I would like to meet interesting people, and I also love being in front of the camera! As a Kid Reporter, I would love to learn how to be a better writer and interview people.

I think of myself as a journalist and a storyteller.

If you want to get an education in how to get a story and how to survive, then get a street reporter job in New York City.

I continue to enjoy looking for stories, and trying to do the best job I can reporting and writing them.

I'm a reporter - if I don't interview someone, I don't have much to say, and I definitely can't just sit down and knock out 800 words on any subject you give me.

I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.

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

The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know, the second, is to find out who will tell you.

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

I was not very good at newspaper reporting. I'm just not quick enough, and I always tend to tell things as stories.

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.

I love collections. I got into journalism with the idea that I'd be doing them.

The reporting has always been what drives me.