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Newspaper Quotes

Most Famous Newspaper Quotes of All Time!

These Know quotes recall newsroom beginnings, like editing a school paper and earning a writing scholarship, plus hope for the day a woman leading a newsroom is no longer treated as news itself.

What one reads in the newspaper and what one sees on the street are absolutely not the same.

Quotes by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.

Quotes by Adlai Stevenson I

Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.

Quotes by Adlai Stevenson I

I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

Quotes by A. C. Benson

Always Quotes

I've always been a writer, and in high school, I was the editor of my school newspaper and I got a writing scholarship. It's always been a passion of mine.

Quotes by Zoe Lister-Jones

I can't wait for the day when it is no longer newsworthy that a woman is appointed editor of a newspaper.

Quotes by Zanny Minton Beddoes

If I want to ban any newspaper, I will, with good reason.

Quotes by Yahya Jammeh

I have before me a newspaper slip on which a writer expresses the opinion that no one should be allowed to possess more than one million dollars' worth of property.

Quotes by William Graham Sumner

I read about eight newspapers in a day. When I'm in a town with only one newspaper, I read it eight times.

Quotes by Will Rogers

Day Quotes

What we did with 'AllThingsD', though, was very different. We weren't taking a newspaper and putting it on the web; we were creating a digital native product, and we did it inside of a very old, stuffy newspaper company at...

Quotes by Walt Mossberg

The editor of a newspaper, who is an old friend, asked me to write a column. According to her, I cracked lame jokes all the time and read voraciously.

Quotes by Twinkle Khanna

The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a newspaper editor and went back to college.

Quotes by Tony Hillerman

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.

Quotes by Tom Wolfe

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.

Quotes by Tom Wolfe

Know Quotes

Virtually every magazine, newspaper, TV station and cable channel is owned by a big corporation, and they've squashed stories that they don't want the public to know about.

Quotes by Tom Scholz

In city after city, newspaper after newspaper has diminished its staff of critics, sometimes to zero. Film and T.V. critics have been dropped and not replaced. Maybe they're deemed unnecessary because nobody cares if anything's good or not.

Quotes by Tom Shales

I went to a large consolidated school in Appalachia. And I wrote the story when I was in the second grade and I took it up to the third floor to the school newspaper office that was written and edited...

Quotes by Tom Robbins

I tried to steer the student newspaper toward more pertinent information instead of the usual gossip and bull.

Quotes by Tom Bergeron

I was the editor of the school newspaper and in drama club and choir, so I was not a popular girl in the traditional sense, but I think I was known for being relatively scathing.

Quotes by Tina Fey

Like Quotes

The future regulatory arrangements for the newspaper industry need to be done in a much calmer deliberative way, in slower time when we've got beyond this media firestorm.

Quotes by Thomas Watson, Jr.

Frequently Asked Questions

What does this Newspaper quotes collection focus on?
It gathers reflections from people connected to journalism, touching on editing, career beginnings, and how digital media has reshaped what a 'newspaper' even means. There's also a sharper line about press control, which adds some tension to the otherwise nostalgic tone of the set.
Why do people search for newspaper quotes?
Journalists, students, and media enthusiasts often want language that captures both the romance and the challenges of the profession. Others are drawn to quotes about how the industry has changed as digital publishing took over. The mix of personal story and industry commentary makes the page relevant to more than one kind of reader.
Is there a quote here about starting out as a writer?
Yes, one describes being editor of a school newspaper and earning a writing scholarship, framing that early role as the start of a lifelong passion. It's a relatable entry point for anyone who traces their own career back to a small beginning.
Does the collection touch on how newspapers have evolved?
One quote makes a clear distinction between simply moving a newspaper online and building something meant to be a genuinely digital, native product from the start. That distinction still shapes how modern outlets think about publishing today.
How can I use a quote from this page?
These lines work well in writing about media careers, journalism history, or captions tied to reading and current events. For related ideas, check the Day and Know collections, which touch on habit and awareness in a similar everyday way.

Others describe building a truly digital-native product instead of just moving print online, while one line bluntly claims the right to ban Like any newspaper with good reason.