I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Journalists are workers of words and only become literature when driven by passion.
- In plain terms
- Journalism needs passion to be art.
- What can you take from it?
- Write with passion for literature.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What makes writing art?
- Is journalism art?
Another view
Passion does not guarantee quality.
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