“Writing to a magazine that had published his obituary: I've just read that I am dead. Don't forget to delete me from your list of subscribers.”
Rudyard Kipling
“It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.”
Robert Benchley
“Television? The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it.”
C.P. Scott
“Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.”
Ernie Kovacs
“Television is simultaneously blamed, often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change it.”
Clive James
“Editor: one who sorts the wheat from the chaff and prints the chaff.”
Adlai Stevenson
“Journalism: a profession whose business it is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.”
Lord Northcliffe