Opinion Piece Quotes

I intend to buy 'The New York Times.' Please don't take it as a joke.

A major Iowa newspaper published an op-ed against Trump calling him a 'self-absorbed, wholly unqualified feckless blowhard.' Or as Trump put it, 'You forgot very rich ... I'm a very rich, self-absorbed, wholly unqualified feckless blowhard. Very, very rich.'

Writing an op-ed feels like I'm taking the SAT. It's so hard. It feels like homework. And if it feels like homework, it just doesn't get done.

When I need to take a side, I write a newspaper article and I tell my government, "You should not do that, you should do this." They don't listen to me, but I've been doing this for sixty years now. But, when I write a novel, I am not in that business.

I like to say that a 'Times' editorial presents a strong opinion based on reality.

When I was a 12-year-old middle-schooler in Richmond, Virginia, my local newspaper published an op-ed that I wrote all by myself.

The first time I ever wrote anything, it was an editorial column for my high school newspaper.

Indeed, 'The Second Plane' is such a weak, risible, and often objectionable volume that the reader finishes it convinced that Mr. Amis should stick to writing fiction and literary criticism, as he's thoroughly discredited himself with these essays as any sort of political or social commentator.

If you dared to put your opinion into a factual piece, your editors said, "You can't do this. Write an op-ed."

If you're writing an opinion piece, it's your job to write your opinion. If, on the other hand, you wrote a novel, as Virginia Woolf tells us, it would be inappropriate if you let your novel be influenced by your political opinions.

How much of a book review is about the reviewer? Sometimes it's mostly about the reviewer!

I don't generally read reviews.

I guess if you want me to stop writing horrible, mean takedowns of everyone, give me a really, really cushy columnist gig.