| "editor a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed." »Elbert Hubbard |
| "I read no newspaper now but Ritchie's, and in that chiefly the advertisements, for they contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper." »Thomas Jefferson |
| "There was a time when the reader of an unexciting newspaper would remark, 'How dull is the world today' Nowadays he says, 'What a dull newspaper'" »Daniel J. Boorstin |
| "Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it." »Alvin Toffler |
| "A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor." »Ring Lardner |
| "It was an interesting experience being metropolitan editor of the Times , in precisely the same way as being simmered in a saucepan for a few years is terribly interesting." »A. M. Rosenthal |
| "The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper." »Thomas Jefferson |
| "Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper." »Thomas Jefferson |
| "The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper." »Stanislaw Lec |
| "A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself." »Arthur Miller |
| "A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not." »Henry Fielding |
| "Critics are by no means the end of the law. Do not think all is over with you because you articles are rejected. It may be that the editor has his drawer full, or that he does not know enough to appreciate you, or you have not gained a reputation, or he is not in a mood to be pleased. A critic's judgment is like that of any intelligent person. If he has experience, he is capable of judging whether a book will sell. That is all." »Lavina Goodell |
| "Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists." »Norman Mailer |
| "It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper." »Jerry Seinfeld |
| "I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it." »Thomas Jefferson |
| "To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter." »Aleister Crowley |
| "You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on." »Harry S Truman |
| "Since that deluge of newspaper articles I have been so flooded with questions, invitations, suggestions, that I keep dreaming I am roasting in Hell, and the mailman is the devil eternally yelling at me, showering me with more bundles of letters at my head because I have not answered the old ones." »Albert Einstein |
| "Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half." »Gore Vidal |
| "Th' newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, controls th'ligislachure, baptizes th' young, marries th' foolish, comforts th' afflicted, afflicts th' comfortable, buries th' dead an' roasts thim aftherward." »Finley Peter Dunne |
| "Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you." »Helen Rowland |
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