To read a newspaper for the first time is like coming into a film that has been on for an hour. Newspapers are like serials. To understand them you have to take knowledge to them; the knowledge that serves best is the knowledge provided by the newspaper itself. (Quote by - V. S. Naipaul)

Headlines twice the size of the events. (Quote by - John Galsworthy)

The newspaper is a greater treasure to the people than uncounted millions of gold. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)

Because people have read those things in the newspapers, they think it is true. Ten years ago all these things I have just mentioned would have upset me. (Quote by - Ruud van Nistelrooy)

Some newspapers have a hands-off policy on favored politicians. But it's generally very small newspapers or local TV stations. (Quote by - Bob Woodward)

The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me... by newspapers and the Bible. (Quote by - Van Wyck Brooks)

There isn't as much passion and outrage in today's newspapers. That may be because of a corporate decision, but they've lost their personality. (Quote by - Michael Gartner)

Governments always tend to want not really a free press but a managed or well-conducted one. (Quote by - Mrs. Ann Ward Radcliffe)

I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web. (Quote by - Alan Dean Foster)

Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics. (Quote by - Karl Kraus)

ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news. (Quote by - Ben Johnson)

If the newspapers are useful in overthrowing tyrants, it is only to establish a tyranny of their own. (Quote by - James Fenimore Cooper)

Newspapers are the world's mirrors. (Quote by - James Ellis)

Newspapers write ringing editorials declaring that this is and always was a democracy. (Quote by - Robert Welch)

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate for a moment to prefer the latter. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)

All I know is what I read in the papers. (Quote by - Will Rogers)

If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)

Once a newspaper touches a story the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists. (Quote by - Norman Mailer)

Most people don't have the money to spend on advertising to create awareness among readers, nor do they have the contacts at newspapers or magazines to get their books reviewed. (Quote by - Sara Paretsky)

In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress. (Quote by - Heinrich Heine)

I've never canceled a subscription to a newspaper because of bad cartoons or editorials. If that were the case, I wouldn't have any newspapers or magazines to read. (Quote by - Richard M. Nixon)

Before this century shall run out, journalism will be the whole press. Mankind will write their book day by day, hour by hour, page by page. Thought will spread abroad with the rapidity of light--instantly conceived, instantly written, instantly understood at the extremities of the earth. (Quote by - Alphonse de Lamartine)

The mass media in the days of newspapers and television it's hard to be able to find a story that's about just what you're interested in at the time you're interested in it. (Quote by - Guy Burgess)

Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil. (Quote by - Jean de la Fontaine)

I couldn't have attended half the parties that I was supposed to have been to according to the newspapers. It bothers me. (Quote by - Calvin Klein)