Columnists Quotations

Teamwork is better than isolation, especially for a columnist.

Report, report, report. Dig, dig, dig. Think, think, think. Don't stop being a reporter because you've become a columnist.

It is the gossip columnist's business to write about what is none of his business.

Don't commit to being a columnist unless you're willing to do it right. Report your behind off, so you have something original and useful to say. Say it in a way that will interest someone other than you, your family and your sources.

A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call a politician

Political columnists and sports pundits are rewarded for being overconfident.

Our most noted satirists are true columnists, and their opinions can be worth more than any well-documented expose.

Lots of you know me as a lone, hard-bitten columnist, prone to lurking on deserted rocky promontories while searching for my muse.

As the saying goes: "If you're not part of the solution, you're a newspaper columnist."

The major gossip columnists were more concerned with protecting the industry than with gunning down sinners.

Leonard Pitts, Jr. is the most insightful and inspiring columnist of his generation.