It's been said that no man is a hero to a newspaperman, and I spent too many years as an ink-stained wretch.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.
The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings.
The only reason anyone ever called me a hero is because I get this paper, here.
I've never wanted to do anything but be a newspaperman ever since I was 13.
Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it.
I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.
A hero is a man who does what he can.
The men I write can be intense, quiet, outspoken and outrageous, deadly or fun... but I would never waste time on a hero who wasn't honorable, who didn't protect those who couldn't protect themselves, who didn't value children and pets, who wasn't independent and unselfish.
As a rule, anyone who can tell a good story can write one, so there really need be no mistake about his qualification; such a man will be careful not to be wearisome, and to keep his point, or his catastrophe, well in hand.
We're newspaper junkies; I can't imagine life without a newspaper.
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