Michael Wolff Quotes

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

I guess because I'm a washed-up journalist, I always do a lot of research.

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.

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 used to be a journalist.

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

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 love writing traditional magazine pieces, and especially their breadth of reporting and the deliberateness of the writing.

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.

The deadlines are much, much longer with books. When I was a reporter, a lot of times I'd come in at 8:30 a.m., get an assignment right away, interview somebody, turn the story in by 9:30, and have the finished story in the paper that landed on my desk by noon.

There is no writer's block in a newsroom. There's only unemployment block.

I didn't like being in a newsroom all the time.

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

Report, report, report. Dig, dig, dig. Think, think, think. Don't stop being a reporter because you've become a columnist.

They put me on the shift where they thought I could do the least harm, midnight to eight in the morning. Although the hours were lousy, they were perfect for an apprentice reporter.

When you do a piece of journalism, you may have to cut away 95 percent of what you are experiencing.

Find out what happened and put it in the paper

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

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 write and teach creative nonfiction. I was a reporter.

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.

As a journalist, the details always tell the story.