"In the end, the discipline of verification is what separates journalism from entertainment, propaganda, fiction, or art."

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Source : Bill Kovach, Tom Rosenstiel (2001). “The Elements of Journalism: What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect”, p.91, Three Rivers Press

Bill Kovach

#Art Quotes #Discipline Quotes #Fiction Quotes

“I just needed to leave Hollywood.”
“This life is but the childhood of our immortality.”

Source : Denis Johnson (2016). “Tree of Smoke”, p.317, Pan Macmillan
“Do you want to choose winning over standing out? It's a choice every player on every championship team has to do”
“I had a publisher who felt comics were just for little kiddies, so he never wanted me to use words of more than two syllables.”
“I don't like mysteries, which is why I want to solve them. It bothers me that there are things I don't know.”
“It's fortunate that I am a writer, because that has helped me understand the properties of words. They are what have made life complex. In the battle for status in the animal kingdom, power and aggressiveness have been all-important. But among humans, once they acquired speech, all that changed.”
“I had no choice. Love does funny things to people.”
“If you want a favorite book, Orson Scott Card's 'Ender's Game'. You'll be hooked. I think he's written like twelve or thirteen.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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