A good newspaper is never nearly good enough but a lousy newspaper is a joy forever.
Garrison Keillor

A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
Arthur Miller

A harsh reality of newspaper editing is that the deadlines don't allow for the polish that you expect in books or even magazines.
Bill Walsh

A magazine or a newspaper is a shop. Each is an experiment and represents a new focus, a new ratio between commerce and intellect.
John Jay Chapman

A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
Henry Fielding

A newspaper is a circulating library with high blood pressure.
Arthur Baer

A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.
H. L. Mencken

A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day.
Jim Bishop

A newspaper is the lowest thing there is.
Richard J. Daley

A newspaper should be the maximum of information, and the minimum of comment.
Richard Cobden

A newspaper that you're not reading can be used for anything; and the same people didn't think it was immoral to wrap their garbage in newspaper.
Robert Rauschenberg

A Swedish newspaper reporter called and said, You've been awarded the Prize. I was quite sure it was a practical joke.
Joshua Lederberg

Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
Charles Revson

Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
Thomas Jefferson

After spending three years of my life looking into this, I am more convinced than ever that the U.S. government's responsibility for the drug problems in South Central Los Angeles and other inner cities is greater than I ever wrote in the newspaper.
Gary Webb

After this, I took private lessons in Italian from an elementary school teacher. He gave me themes to write about, and some of them turned out so well that he told me to publish them in a newspaper.
Grazia Deledda

America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.
Alexander Graham Bell

An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen.
Irving Babbitt

Any newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a web of horrors, I cannot understand how an innocent hand can touch a newspaper without convulsing in disgust.
Charles Baudelaire