Nora Ephron Quotes

Journalism, to me, is just another drug - a free ride to scenes I'd probably miss if I stayed straight.

I'm in the business, as a journalist, of asking tough questions.

[On journalists:] We are a noisy, imperfect lot, struggling to scribble what has been called the first draft of history.

Journalism is one set of tools - one toolkit I have. One vocabulary, one lens.

Journalism is not a precise science, it's a crude art

Journalism is just the art of capturing behavior.

Most reporters who come to me get their stories directly from press releases. Very few do what one would consider to be their professional duty.

We don't go into journalism to be popular. It is our job to seek the truth and put constant pressure on our leaders until we get answers.

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

As journalists, we keep pushing and pushing.

I'm a journalist and that's what I do.

I'm an expert on the NewsHour and it isn't how I practice journalism. I am not involved in the story. I serve only as a reporter or someone asking questions. I am not the story.

As a journalist, one tends to think there's nothing off limits.

My job is to cover the news and do it accurately and fair. And we do.

No reporter of my generation, whatever his genius, ever really rated spats and a walking stick until he had covered both a lynching and a revolution.

Journalism is the art of collecting varying kinds of information (commonly called news) which a few people possess and of transmitting it to a much larger number of people who are supposed to desire to share it.

I knew I had to be a journalist because I'm deeply curious about the world.

I believe journalism is coming to be regarded as quite a respectable occupation for gentlemen nowadays.

Journalism is an act of faith in the future.

journalism was for me more than a business or a profession. It was a way of living, of experiencing the world even as I instantly distanced myself from it, in order to recreate what I'd witnessed for the public.

Essentially, there is no media, folks. There just isn't any media in the sense that there are reporters out there uncovering things you and I don't know and telling us what they are.

I am not a new journalist, whatever that is. I just sit here at the typewriter and bang away at the old forms.

Journalism is nine-tenths being in the right places at the right time.

Journalists are interesting. They just aren't as interesting as the things they cover.

American journalism (like the journalism of any other country) is predominantly paltry and worthless. Its pretensions are enormous, but its achievements are insignificant.