Quotes by Cockburn, Claud

Evidently there are plenty of people in journalism who have neither go >>

What arouses the indignation of the honest satirist is not, unless the >>

Nothing sets a person up more than having something turn out just the >>

Quotations about Journalism and Journalists

Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is >>

Opinionated writing is always the most difficult... simply because it >>

I find I journalize too tediously. Let me try to abbreviate. >>

Evidently there are plenty of people in journalism who have neither got what they liked nor quite grown to like what they get. They write pieces they do not much enjoy writing, for papers they totally despise, and the sad process ends by ruining their style and disintegrating their personality, two developments which in a writer cannot be separate, since his personality and style must progress or deteriorate together, like a married couple in a country where death is the only permissible divorce.

Cockburn, Claud