Franklin Knight Lane Quotes

My father was a journalist.

I think journalism is useful training for a writer in the way it takes the preciousness out of the pragmatic side of the craft.

When I was at a newspaper, I knew what an opportunity that was, and I religiously protected my time on the cop beat.

I wasn't the greatest reporter in the world, but I wasn't starting at zero.

Journalism is literature in a hurry.

The reporter is the daily prisoner of clocked facts. On all working days, he is expected to do his best in one swift swipe at each story.

Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

I used to be a journalist.

Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it.

My function is, as objectively and accurately as I can, to present reality to people out there, and doing that as quickly as we do is quite difficult enough, thank you.

I mean, journalism is very detailed... you try to get down in the weeds and sort out exactly what happened. And I don't think that a feature film is really a place where that happens.

Washington newspaper men know everything.

Journalism is not an exact science. At best it i a crude art.

It's about being right and trying to get the facts and get the story right, and inform, you know, the readership or the viewership. And there are some reporters that do that.

I'm not a politician; I'm a journalist.

I think of myself as a journalist first and foremost.

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

The reporting has always been what drives me.

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 not a journalist, never pretend to be.

I have such respect and awe for journalists who are able to communicate important information to the masses without sobbing.

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

I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.

See, I have no journalism in my background, so I wasn't practised at research or writing non-fiction, nor at handling the truth in a journalistic way. Journalists know when to call a halt and write something, but I kept on looking for answers.

A good journalist is modest; his only job is simple: to decide what counts as news.