#papers

I think there'd be huge losses if there weren't newspapers. I know everything's shifting to the Internet and some people would say, 'News is news, what you're talking about is a change of consumption, not the product that's out there.' But I think there is a change. ↗

— Michael Connelly

#change #consumption #everything #huge #i

The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism. ↗

— Henry A. Wallace

#american #carefully #common #crack #cultivate

One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid. ↗

— James D. Watson

#conception #contrast #could #dull #goodly

The last thing we want is politicians running newspapers, but so too we don't want newspapers running the government. ↗

— Thomas Watson, Jr.

#last #newspapers #politicians #running #thing

So it's the kind of business where you can't wait to get up in the morning and read the papers, or listen to what's on the news, and you know, how the world's going to change. ↗

— Sanford I. Weill

#change #get #going #how #kind

The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#authors #best #churches #colleges #common

Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels. ↗

— P. G. Wodehouse

#down #drops #every #grade #ladder

My high-school papers, my college-application essays, read like Norman Mailer packed in a crunchy-peanut-butter sandwich. ↗

— James Wolcott

#high-school #like #mailer #norman #norman mailer

I was once hired to write a column for 'The Guardian' and then got fired before I'd submitted my first one. That was unusual. Most newspapers wait until I've written at least one piece for them before firing me. ↗

— Toby Young

#column #fired #firing #first #got

It was 1966 by the time I started taking pictures seriously and books, newspapers and magazines of the time were full of great pictures that helped to inspire me. ↗

— Fay Godwin

#by the time #full #great #helped #i