Irv Kupcinet Quotes

I was editor of my high school literary magazine and a reporter for the school newspaper.

Somebody realized, hey, students are printing dummy ads and dummy news stories, why don't they really print something. So there was the Shortridge Daily Echo, and a hell of a lot of writers have come out of Shortridge on that account. The head writer of the I Love Lucy show, Madelyn Pugh, was a schoolmate of mine. Dan Wakefield. Writing was a perfectly reasonable thing to do.

I wrote the music column in my high school newspaper.

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 got the writing bug in the fourth grade when a poem of mine was published in the school newspaper. Music criticism came a little later, when I was in high school.

Well, my background is journalism. I don't have any creative-writing experience except for one class I took as a sophomore in college.

I wrote things for the school's newspaper, and - like all teenagers - I dabbled in poetry.

I ended up switching over to journalism in college. A few weeks into freshman year, I realized that business school wasn't for me. And writing stories and reading and talking to people is something that I just enjoy doing, so I figured why not try to build up a post-basketball career with that.

I had a column in high school for our school newspaper. I enjoy writing.

I loved writing for the school newspaper. I liked to report and interview people, but I really liked to write columns, funny columns.

Novel writing should never be confused with journalism. Unfortunately, in the case of Primary Colors, a fair number of journalists confused.

Wikileaks in its essence is a publisher, pure and simple. They were very much in the same position as 'The New York Times' and 'The Guardian.'

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.

My career as a magazine writer was largely prefaced on the idea of curiosity, to go on adventures and weasel my way into the lives of people that I admire.

I own 'The New York Observer.'

Reading a newspaper is like reading someone's letters, as opposed to a biography or a history. The writer really does not know what will happen. A novelist needs to feel what that is like.

For many imaginative writers, working for the press is a fact of their life. But it's best not to like it too much.

The people who are writing online and the people in my genre of creative non-fiction exert a great deal more freedom that journalists are allowed to exert in their day-to-day work.

Not everyone realises that to write a really good piece of journalism is at least as demanding intellectually as the achievement of any scholar.

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

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.

The newspaper is, in fact, very bad for one's prose style. That's why I gravitated towards feature stories where you get a little more leeway in the writing style.

I had always been quiet and studious in school. I was the high school editor of the newspaper.

More people will watch 'Spotlight' than will ever read the 'Globe' series that inspired it.

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