#papers

When newspapers started to publish the box office scores of movies, I was horrified. Those results are totally fake because they never include the promotion budget. ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

#box #box office #budget #fake #horrified

When other people are grieving, the newspaperman turns efficient. ↗

— Stieg Larsson

#grief #news #newspapers #death

I’ve found newspapers only useful as kindling material for campfires. It’s been said that newspaper articles are written at a fifth grade reading level. If so, I can’t figure out why journalists would write something that the average high school senior can’t even read. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#high-school #journalism #journalists #media #newspapers

Sorry I'm late," Ms. Egami said to the class. She dropped her papers, which scattered in that special way papers do when one is running late. ↗

— Adam Rex

#late #papers #school #teacher #funny

I became a journalist because I did not want to rely on newspapers for information. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#journalism #mainstream-media #newspapers #journalist

You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers; welcome, too, to your bars and your whisky that only makes me ill. Here am I in the forest, quite content. ↗

— Knut Hamsun

#art #bars #books #content #forest

I can imagine in years to come that my papers and memorabilia, my journals and letters, will find themselves always in the company of people who care about many of the things I do. ↗

— Alice Walker

#always #care #come #company #find

I busted out of the place in a hurry and went to a saloon and drank beer and said that for the rest of my life I'd never take a job in a place where you couldn't throw cigarette butts on the floor. I was hooked on this writing for newspapers and magazines. ↗

— Jimmy Breslin

#busted #butts #cigarette #drank #floor

They pulled Resurrection out of the theatres, so it was running in New York and I was nominated for the Oscar and there was no ad in the newspapers to say it was running. So it was literally killed. ↗

— Ellen Burstyn

#i #killed #literally #new #new york

In fact, I don't read newspapers any longer. ↗

— Naomi Campbell

#fact #i #in fact #longer #newspapers