Andrea Mitchell Quotes

I had a great editor, Rebecca Corbett, from the time I was a city reporter right through to the years I worked on the 'Sun's' enterprise reporting team.

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

As a journalist, the details always tell the story.

My mother was a reporter, and though she quit when they had kids, she still loved it. She told me about the people at the paper and the articles she wrote. She had the best memory of anyone I know, and she could really tell a tale.

I had - all my life, everybody who knew me thought that I would probably grow up to be a reporter, a newspaper reporter because we didn't have much television in those days.

I started as a print reporter.

I am glad I worked on a newspaper because it made me know I had to write whether I felt like it or not.

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.

I wanted no other job than to work in newspapers. I was fascinated by the process of collecting information, talking to people and having the story appear in a paper that would be delivered in your letterbox.

I really think more fledgling novelists - and many current and even established novelists - should get out into the real world and cover local politics, sports, culture, and crime and write it up on deadline.

I used to be a print reporter.

That's the reason I left the networks. I wanted to write and report and coanchor.

What could I have possibly learned except the really most important thing, which is that I did not want to work at the 'New York Times'? Beyond that, I learned how a newspaper works.

Many writers learned their craft and work ethic at a newspaper. I benefited from that.

I miss particularly the managing editor role on the 'Evening News.'

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

I work like every journalist works so I have recordings, I have notes.

I'm a reporter. I'm not a scholar.

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

I was the editor of the 'News of the World;' I was the editor of the 'Sun' and chief executive.

I'm in the reporting part of journalism.

I could learn how to press 'Record' on a tape recorder and write for a newspaper or a magazine.

Someday perhaps I'll have to get a grownup job... but for now I'm having too much fun being a reporter.

I write articles, and I do profiles of members of organizations and associations.

I've never wanted to do anything but be a newspaperman ever since I was 13.