H. G. Bissinger Quotes

My first newspaper job was a high school reporter for the 'New York Daily News.'

I always wanted to be a serious journalist.

I started as a print reporter.

Journalism is a craft that takes years to learn. It's like golf. You never get it right all the time. It's a game of fewer errors, better facts, and better reporting.

I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a reporter. I don't know where I got the idea that it was a romantic calling.

I wanted to be a journalist for a long time.

I was in Bucks County at the 'Bucks County Currier Times,' which is a great place to start for any reporter who wants to start out.

I want to be a journalist; I want to ask tough questions.

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

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

My own career started in New York at the 'Associated Press', a fast-paced news agency where we rarely had time for deep reporting.

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.

My father was a journalist.

A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.

I used to be a journalist.

For many years I was engaged in journalism, writing articles and chronicles for the daily press without ever joining the staff of any newspaper.

When I started working for Rolling Stone, I became very interested in journalism and thought maybe that's what I was doing, but it wasn't.

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

I am a hard-news journalist. That is what I do.

I used to be a print reporter.

I take a certain pride in having maintained a reputation for fast copy throughout my newspaper career. Fast-breaking stories left my typewriter in a hurry. Not great literature, perhaps, but fast, and usually accurate.

I've always thought of myself as a journalist; that was what I did.

Anybody who's spent thirteen or fourteen years in print journalism has a lot of stories he thinks were inwardly satisfying as far as preparation, understanding, and diligence.

I am a writer who happens to use some tools of journalism.

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