Journalists

The late New Yorker writer Abbot Joseph Liebling had this claim to fame:
"I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better."
So there.

Another journalists, H.L. Mencken, wrote:
"Why authors write I do not know. As well ask why a hen lays an egg or a cow stands patiently while a farmer burglarizes her."

Speaking of journalism, Oscar Wilde penned this jewel:
"The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read."
Ouch.

And if that's not too close to home, here's one from an unknown source published Robert Byrnes' "The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Every Said":
"All editorial writers ever do is come down from the hills after the battle is over and shoot the wounded."