“The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable, and literature is not read”
Oscar Wilde
“Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once”
Cyril Connolly
“Journalism is literature in a hurry.”
Matthew Arnold
“I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.”
Marguerite Duras
“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”
“I read that piece and thought, 'I'm getting out of here,' ... I'm getting out of daily journalism because this is a level way above what I and everybody I know has been doing, and I want to try to do something like this. It's a very influential piece.”
David Halberstam
“You can't read a story about me in a leftist journal without connecting me to right-wing funding and this and that. Why don't they just deal with the issues?”
David Horowitz
