Nick Denton Quotes

I worked for a newspaper in Europe for, I lived in Europe for about seven years, so I worked in this sort of a yellow journalism kind of a thing, it was like a scandal sheet.

I think of myself as a journalist and a storyteller.

It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about.

I'm a journalist, and I'm a filmmaker. I have an organization that's all about telling stories.

Obviously, in journalism, you're confined to what happens. And the tendency to embellish, to mythologize, it's in us. It makes things more interesting, a closer call. But journalism taught me how to write a sentence that would make someone want to read the next one.

Great questions make great reporting.

I'm in the reporting part of journalism.

I expected to go into journalism or law.

I'm a journalist; I love doing interviews, and I hope that will continue.

I feel like, in some ways, I'm just a journalist.

Ultimately if you're a journalist, one day you're writing about figure skating, one day a political debate. I loved that about reporting. I like throwing my energies into various corners of the world.

Press is basically a created story. It's all just stories.

I used to be a journalist.

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.

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 thought journalism would enable me to be a mile wide and an inch deep.

Everything is a narrative in life. I learned that early on as a reporter at the 'Washington Post.'

I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.

I don't have a college degree. I started working at 19 on a tiny newspaper. I've covered everything from weddings to crime to criminal weddings.

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

I'm a journalist, so my friends are journalists: magazines, newspapers, even public radio. Nobody had their kids in public school.

This much we know: Journalism is not a precise science. It's, on its best day, is a crude art. We make mistakes; I make mistakes. With more than 50 years as a journalist, I have at least had the opportunity to blow more stories, make more mistakes than maybe anybody in television.

There are few joys to compare with the telling of a well-told tale.

In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation.

I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.