Reporter

🇺🇸Ernest Hemingway

Literature

1899–1961

"'Why, you sad son-of-a-bitch, how can you be so cocky and stand there and block cars when you're nothing but a miserable bear and a black bear at that - not even a polar or a grizzly or anything worth while.'"

🇨🇦Robertson Davies

Literature

1913–1995

"To be apt in quotation is a splendid and dangerous gift. Splendid, because it ornaments a man's speech with other men's jewels; dangerous, for the same reason."

🇺🇸Hunter S. Thompson

Literature

1937–2005

"I may sound a little black, but I'm really pretty well adjusted."

🇺🇸Donald Barthelme

Literature

1931–1989

"“The Continental Congress resolved that your famous plainneff and modefty would be ill ferved were it known that a houfe for your horfe was paid for from the public purfe."

🇺🇸Napoleon Hill

Literature

1883–1970

"I know that I have the ability to achieve the object of my Definite Purpose in life, therefore, I DEMAND of myself persistent, continuous action toward its attainment, and I here and now promise to render such action."

🇺🇸William Randolph Hearst

Politics

1863–1951

"Guide to the William Randolph Hearst Papers at The Bancroft Library"

🇵🇱Ryszard Kapuściński

Literature

Realism

1932–2007

"Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat."

🇺🇸Laura Ingalls Wilder

Literature

1867–1957

"I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all."

"Several members of Tyrangiel's staff at Bloomberg describe him as a man who never raises his voice; never berates anybody, even when it's deserved, and never makes people feel anxious on deadline."

🇺🇸Noam Cohen

Literature

"Through Google, you can find the horrible things people say about you, and the nice things they say about you. And so I do that regularly to sort of check on it."

🇺🇸Margaret Fuller

Journalism

Transcendentalism

1810–1850

"Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved."

🇺🇸Jamelle Bouie

Politics

b. 1987

"eaving home is hard, and the of wealth makes it even harder."

🇺🇸Walt Kelly

Journalism

1913–1973

"Not all segregationists are lunatics, or even dishonest men."

🇺🇸George Ade

Literature

1866–1944

"She was a soprano of the kind often used for augmenting grief at a funeral."

🇺🇸Nora Ephron

Literature

1941–2012

"Whenever I get married, I start buying Gourmet magazine. I think of it as my own personal bride's disease."

🇺🇸Roger Ebert

Literature

Humanism

1942–2013

"There is a scene in this film where a character is defecated on by several people at the same time, and I dunno … I didn't enjoy it."

🇬🇧Siegfried Sassoon

Literature

1886–1967

"Recording of Sassoon reciting "The Dug-Out"

🇫🇷Marc Riboud

Art

1923–2016

"Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second."

🇺🇸Tom Wolfe

Journalism

New Journalism

1930–2018

"National Review 100 Best Non Fiction Books 20th century"

"I will win the crowd. I will give them something they have never seen before."

🇺🇸Shepard Smith

Journalism

b. 1964

"We are America! I don't give a rat's ass if it helps! We are America! We do not fucking torture! We don't do it!"

🇺🇸Gloria Steinem

Politics

feminism

1934–2026

"Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before."

🇺🇸Stansfield Turner

Military

1923–2018

"Interview on the Iranian Arms Scandal from the Dean Peter Krogh Foreign Affairs Digital Archives"