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"There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page."

"Interviews were invented to make journalism less passive. Instead of waiting for something to happen, journalists ask someone what should or could happen."

"A newspaper is an oversized book with adverts and an expiry date."

"Through TV people turn their family living rooms into meditative dens of death and violence worship."

"In a society where dirt sells, for every good story told as it is, you will hear the whole of that day's 10 bad stories sensationalized; although in reality, it could be that 100 good deeds happened that day which went unsung."

"If you believe in journalism, you don't insult good journalists."

"The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw."

"If you're nice, decent, attractive, get good grades and are talented, no one wants to read about that...They want to read what's out-of-the-ordinary, the scandalous, the shocking and the tragic. They want a story; they want to be captivated and what's typical does not give them that...unless, of course, that person ends up a victim, commits a crime or loses their minds via a love affair."
Explore more quotes by Virginia Woolf

"For she could never think of anything to say to Clarissa, though she liked her. She had lots of fine qualities; but they had nothing in common - she and Clarissa."

"Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts that to cut it free and bring it to the light of day demands courage of the rarest."

"Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory."

"He called her a melon, a pineapple, an olive tree, an emerald, and a fox in the snow all in the space of three seconds; he did not know whether he had heard her, tasted her, seen her, or all three together."

"First a warning, musical; then the hour, irrevocable. The leaden circles dissolved in the air."

"If life has a base that it stands upon, if it is a bowl that one fills and fills and fills - than my bowl without a doubt stands upon this memory."
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