Anthony Shadid Quotes

As a journalist, the details always tell the story.

A good journalist is modest; his only job is simple: to decide what counts as news.

Good journalism, I think, represents life and if you try to organize something too neatly it usually blows up in your face and doesn't really happen the way you want it to.

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

I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.

I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.

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

I find there's a thin, permeable membrane between journalism and history, and though some academic historians take a dim view of it, I gather a lot of strength and professional inspiration from passing back and forth across it.

I wanted no other job than to work in newspapers. I was fascinated by the process of collecting information, talking to people and having the story appear in a paper that would be delivered in your letterbox.

There are a lot of really good skills you get from doing journalism - it completely changed my world and how I interact with other people.

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

My job as a reporter is not to know what I think.

The most profound lessons about journalism I've learned have been taught to me by the people I've covered.

Anybody who's spent thirteen or fourteen years in print journalism has a lot of stories he thinks were inwardly satisfying as far as preparation, understanding, and diligence.

I believe there are two kinds of journalists. One who sells a story by being creative, and one who sells a story by being sensationalist.

I love collections. I got into journalism with the idea that I'd be doing them.

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

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

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

I am a writer who happens to use some tools of journalism.

Some journalists are schmucks, in it for themselves, willing to cut corners. But in my experience the vast majority of journalists are trying to contribute to their communities, honestly and reliably.

The reporting has always been what drives me.

I always thought of myself as more of a columnist, but maybe a columnist who does reporting.

Documentary people have to know that, particularly nowadays, they have to be on a mission. And part of the mission is to - is to be like good journalists: search for the truth, have an open mind, listen to as much as you can of different sides of things.

Sadly, journalism doesn't always state the obvious.