To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
Was it smart to be in a Nazi newspaper? I have no idea. Probably not.
Alan Rusbridger is, to many, among the most admired newspaper editors of our time.
When you’re a kid, you see your parents reading the newspaper and you’re like, ‘God, why are they reading the newspaper?’ When you’re young, you’re not reading the newspaper. But there comes a time in your life when the newspaper’s cool.
A lot of my friends were retiring from the newspaper business, and the newspaper pensions are not enormous.
You can get a bit bored of finding out about yourself. I know nothing about politics, for instance. There’s nothing that’s stopped me picking up a newspaper in the past, and it’s something I really should start to do.
Like all young reporters – brilliant or hopelessly incompetent – I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna in a Burberry trench coat, speaking a dozen languages to dangerous women, narrowly escaping Sardinian bandits – the usual stuff that newspaper dreams are made of.
It’s easy to get good table talk going if you have a little help in the form of questions, games, newspaper articles, books with fun statistics, things like that.
I wrote the music column in my high school newspaper.
I went back to the States and started at a small newspaper in Riverside County, California, covering the police; I was making $280 a week covering the police.
How we feel about ourselves as we read the newspaper, set the table, wash the dishes, recycle the trash and wash our clothes… is essential to our overall happiness and well-being.
I have a strong work ethic, yet I’m incredibly lazy as well. The problem with being a writer is that everything you do can be called research. Sitting in the pub is research. Reading the newspaper can be research.
I am fascinated by all the new technology that creates places for us to meet in what is called cyberspace. I understand what it must have meant for the rebellions in the 19th century, especially in 1830 and 1848, when the mass circulated newspaper became so important for the spreading of information.
Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.
I’ve always shied away from computers, the Internet and all that. I’m a bit more traditional, really – pick up a newspaper, pick up a phone.
Is the New York Times a Liberal Newspaper? Of course it is.
The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper.
When you’re true to yourself – not the audience that reads about me in the newspaper or sees a clip someplace, but the audience that actually comes and watches, just like Oprah – they get to know you and they sense something genuine.
I never wanted to write. I just wrote letters home from a kibbutz in Israel to reassure my parents that I was still alive and well fed and having a great time. They thought these letters were brilliant and sent them to a newspaper. So I became a writer by accident.
When you see Pep on TV or read his words in the newspaper, it is the portrait of a man who is the ultimate professional. But when you work with him, you don’t just come to see him as a coach. You learn about his qualities as a man. It is that side of Pep Guardiola that the people on the outside don’t get to see.
The joke newspaper, it says Canada abandons the monarchy.
If you read every newspaper or listened to every radio station and behaved as if your life depended on that, then you would be in an emotional turmoil. Essentially, you have to stay true to yourself. That is enough.
A local newspaper where we were filming in Boston called me the Justin Bieber of Canada. I don’t think they realized Justin Bieber is from Canada. I hope someday I can just be the Liam James of Canada.
Theatre has had a very important role in changing South Africa. There was a time when all other channels of expression were closed that we were able to break the conspiracy of silence, to educate people inside South Africa and the outside world. We became the illegal newspaper.
Every newspaper on earth has called me a liar.
Before the 21st century, stories became popular because people talked about them in other publications or shared magazine and newspaper clippings with friends.
Saying the Washington Post is just a newspaper is like saying Rasputin was just a country priest.
The first newspaper I worked on was the ‘Springfield Union’ in Springfield, Massachusetts. I wrote over a hundred letters to newspapers asking for work and got three responses, two no’s.
Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America?
The day that I spearheaded the passage of America Fast Forward… the newspaper of record did not put it in the newspaper; what they put was my breakup with my ex-girlfriend. I took umbrage with that. A great newspaper ought to be printing things that people care about, issues that people care about.
No serious futurist deals in prediction. These are left for television oracles and newspaper astrologers.
As a newspaper reporter, I covered and was around a fair number of crime scenes involving juvenile delinquents, and few things bothered me more than listening to their parents. Crying, ranting, proclaiming how great their children were despite being kicked out of school or previous run-ins with the law.
Newspapers are so boring. How can you read a newspaper that starts with a 51-word lead sentence?
Reading a newspaper is like reading someone’s letters, as opposed to a biography or a history. The writer really does not know what will happen. A novelist needs to feel what that is like.
Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there’s a good chance that nobody is reading my column.
A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.
Idling is important. Most people don’t know how. They’re afraid of it. This explains why they turn on the television set or pick up the newspaper. They think they have to be doing something.
There are those who believe we have need of more literature, of a large international publishing house, of a great peace newspaper, or the like. I am rather skeptical about this idea.
Some story appears in some newspaper that says that somebody said X, Y, and Z, and a customer says, I don’t understand what they’re talking about – we’re running that product, we’ve been using it for five years, what are they talking about?
What a newspaper needs in its news, in its headlines, and on its editorial page is terseness, humor, descriptive power, satire, originality, good literary style, clever condensation, and accuracy, accuracy, accuracy!
Biographies of me have usually been compiled from old newspaper clips, untruthful publicity stories, and reminiscences of people who claim to have known me well.
Someone remarked that the newspapers or the news magazines are the same as the psalms except that the names changed in the stories. Maybe you can’t understand the psalms without understanding the newspaper and the other way around.
To wake up in England and have the newspaper on your front door with a headline that says, ‘Ozzie’s Beach Whale of a Daughter,’ doesn’t really do much for your self-esteem at all.
I remember my mom would read the newspaper, and if she saw a place that was cheaper in rent, we were gone. She’d pack everything up, move the furniture and we were out of there.
Homer is new this morning, and perhaps nothing is as old as today’s newspaper.
The newspaper is, in fact, very bad for one’s prose style. That’s why I gravitated towards feature stories where you get a little more leeway in the writing style.
A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day.
Football is so popular, people know they can sell their story in a newspaper form or a rating on TV, so they use football because what they are more about is the business of, you know, selling newspapers or seeing commercial time on TV.
It was 1981. I was working on a novel. And I put that novel aside one day after I read a newspaper article. The story said there were 19 women still on the pension payroll who were Confederate war widows. They were women who very early in their lives had married very old men.
A song isn’t a newspaper. It might feel direct, but it’s not.
A newspaper is the center of a community, it’s one of the tent poles of the community, and that’s not going to be replaced by Web sites and blogs.
Unfortunately, I don’t get to read nearly as much as I want because I’m always working on my own stuff, either the novels or newspaper columns.
My new novel ‘Red Hook Road’ began many years ago as a short article in the newspaper.
The photographers I worked alongside loved the news cycle and the hustle and getting that front page of the newspaper. But I wanted to be out in the field in conflict areas, documenting real life rather than political theater.
For years I wrote newspaper columns mostly about the teams in my city. There was no cheering in the press box, and I fought to remain objective.
