"All literature is gossip."

Journalism, Gossip, Literature

64

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

Exlpore more Journalism quotes

"The markets where we've got real good presence are the older, more mature markets like Australia, and Western Europe - where we've only got 6,000 stores, compared to the US with 13,000."

Jim Cantalupo, American Businessman

Journalism, Europe

"The two keys to success as a sportswriter are: 1) A blind willingness to believe anything you're told by the coaches, flacks, hustlers and other "official spokesmen" for the team-owners who provide the free booze ... and: 2) A Roget's Thesaurus, in order to avoid using the same verbs and adjectives twice in the same paragraph.Even a sports editor, for instance, might notice something wrong with a lead that said: "The precision-jack-hammer attack of the Miami Dolphins stomped the balls off the Washington Redskins today by stomping and hammering with one precise jack-thrust after another up the middle, mixed with pinpoint-precision passes into the flat and numerous hammer-jack stomps around both ends...."

Hunter S. Thompson, American Journalist

Journalism, Writing, Belief, Language

"Journalism largely consists in saying "Lord Jones is dead" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

Journalism, Truth, Life, Death

"The Washington Times wrote a story questioning the authenticity of some of the suggestions made about me in Silent Coup. But as a believer in the First Amendment, I believe they have more than a right to air their views."

Bob Woodward, American Journalist

Journalism, First, Questioning, Right, Washington

"Writers are the lunatic fringe of publishing."

Judith Rossner, American Novelist

Journalism, Publishing, Writers

"Newspapermen ask dumb questions. They look up at the sun and ask if it is shining."

Sonny Liston, American Athlete

Journalism, Dumb, Questions, Sun

"Stanford had no journalism program so I just learned by doing, effectively."

John Pomfret, American Poet

Journalism,

"Journalism constructs momentarily arrested equilibriums and gives disorder an implied order. That is already two steps from reality."

Thomas Griffith, American Editor

Journalism, Disorder, Reality

"Journalism is literature in a hurry."

Matthew Arnold, English Poet

Journalism, Literature

"We were right about the slush fund. But Sloan did not testify about it to the Grand Jury."

Ben Bradlee, American Editor

Journalism, Jury, Right

Explore more quotes by Truman Capote

"Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go."

Travel

"To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make."

Music

"It's bad enough in life to do without something YOU want; but confound it, what gets my goat is not being able to give somebody something you want THEM to have."

Giving

"You can't blame a writer for what the characters say."

Writing

"That's not writing that's typing."

Writing

"Fitzgerald has charm. It's a silly word, but it's an exact word for me. I like 'The Great Gatsby' and it's sad, gay nostalgia."

Literature

"Strange where our passions carry us, floggingly pursue us, forcing upon us unwanted dreams, unwelcome destinies."

Passion

64

Standard

Customized

Exlpore more Journalism quotes

"The markets where we've got real good presence are the older, more mature markets like Australia, and Western Europe - where we've only got 6,000 stores, compared to the US with 13,000."

"Journalism largely consists in saying "Lord Jones is dead" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive."

"The Washington Times wrote a story questioning the authenticity of some of the suggestions made about me in Silent Coup. But as a believer in the First Amendment, I believe they have more than a right to air their views."

"Writers are the lunatic fringe of publishing."

"Newspapermen ask dumb questions. They look up at the sun and ask if it is shining."

"Stanford had no journalism program so I just learned by doing, effectively."

"Journalism constructs momentarily arrested equilibriums and gives disorder an implied order. That is already two steps from reality."

"Journalism is literature in a hurry."

"We were right about the slush fund. But Sloan did not testify about it to the Grand Jury."

Explore more quotes by Truman Capote

"Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go."

"To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make."

"It's bad enough in life to do without something YOU want; but confound it, what gets my goat is not being able to give somebody something you want THEM to have."

"You can't blame a writer for what the characters say."

"That's not writing that's typing."

"Fitzgerald has charm. It's a silly word, but it's an exact word for me. I like 'The Great Gatsby' and it's sad, gay nostalgia."

"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor."

"Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life."

"The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply."

"Strange where our passions carry us, floggingly pursue us, forcing upon us unwanted dreams, unwelcome destinies."