A Quote by Giles Coren

My dad is the best and funniest newspaper columnist. There is nobody anywhere near as good.

Giles Coren

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Giles Coren
British - Writer
Born: July 29, 1969

When I was at The Orlando Sentinel as a sports columnist, it was embarrassing that I was the only black female sports columnist at a daily newspaper in North America.

Jemele Hill

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

Dave Barry

In the age of social media, everyone's a newspaper columnist, exaggerating what they think and feel.

Charlie Brooker

I am a newspaper columnist and a professional screenwriter, but my real love is the novel for all the room it has for characters to come alive and breathe and face their challenges.

W. Bruce Cameron

In city after city, newspaper after newspaper has diminished its staff of critics, sometimes to zero. Film and T.V. critics have been dropped and not replaced. Maybe they're deemed unnecessary because nobody cares if anything's good or not.

Tom Shales

Body hair. You know when you're swimming as a kid and you want to crawl on your dad? None of us went anywhere near him. 'My god, a beaver! Everyone out of the pool!

Jon Stewart

When a newspaper columnist wants to write about a novel, the rule is that you're supposed to have a 'hook,' an excuse, a timely reason to bring up the book in question.

Ross Douthat

I always thought of myself as more of a columnist, but maybe a columnist who does reporting.

John Gruber

My father was one of 11. He was an attorney. My mother worked for the Syracuse newspaper as a columnist before she became a stay-at-home mother.

Siobhan Fallon Hogan

One of my lifelong hobbies has been to collect 'aptronyms' - the newspaper columnist Franklin P. Adams's term for people whose names were curiously appropriate to, or provided ironic comment on, their occupations.

Timothy Noah

I have a good team around me and I don't feel anything is anywhere near out of my league.

B. J. Penn

Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column.

Dave Barry

Film is more of a dream when you're younger. I found it almost impossible to see how you would get into the industry having no connections, nobody in the family being anywhere near it and never meeting anybody that had been on a set.

Ben Wheatley

The difference between a reporter, a newspaper columnist, a paid speaker, a television personality, a radio talk show host, a blogger, a movie producer, a publicist, and a political strategist, is growing less - and not more - distinct.

George Packer

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

Garrison Keillor

My grandfather, my dad's dad, he was a lawyer. He was a state legislator. He was the publisher of Oregon's second largest newspaper. He was a pretty amazing guy.

Travis Knight

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