Allan Sloan Quotes

As a journalist, the details always tell the story.

One of my roles, and one of the things I'm good at, is breaking news.

I continue to enjoy looking for stories, and trying to do the best job I can reporting and writing them.

I'm a journalist - I'm not Robert Caro. I have a day job, and a pretty consuming one - a joyfully consuming one.

I love writing traditional magazine pieces, and especially their breadth of reporting and the deliberateness of the writing.

No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist.

To me, the newspaper business was a way to learn about life and how things worked in the real world and how people spoke. You learn all the skills - you learn to listen, you learn to take notes - everything you use later as a novelist was valuable training in the newspaper world. But I always wanted to write novels.

Journalism: an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space.

Good reporting is good reporting, regardless of the newness or oldness of the medium.

I had a column in high school for our school newspaper. I enjoy writing.

Journalism encourages haste ... and haste is the enemy of art.

You cannot write well without data.

I think of myself as a journalist first and foremost.

People go to theatres to see newer things. Content should be the king.

I think anyone can do a book if they want to, it's just timing- wise.

I'm a reporter by nature and training. I like things that make sense.

If I weren't acting, I'd study journalism because I love to write.

I don't think, as a journalist, I'd ever get a story written. I'd probably spend five years researching it, and by the time I'd finish it, no one would be interested in it anymore.

A big part of reporting is just being present. You have to show up ten days in a row to get the one telling detail.

Writing is investigation.

A journalist uses the most precise words he or she can. An artist does the same sort of thing. You gather material about a particular subject, you refine it as best you can.

I guess because I'm a washed-up journalist, I always do a lot of research.

A publisher friend of mine suggested that I write a book about my grandfather, who had just died. I had nothing else to fill my empty days with, so I started work on this book. While researching it - watching lots of movies, talking to moviemakers - I became interested in movies and started making documentaries.

I work like every journalist works so I have recordings, I have notes.

Ask how to live? Write, write, write, anything; The world's a fine believing world, write news.