Kingman Brewster, Jr. Quotes

It won’t make for a quiet life but it will make for an interesting paper vastly more significant because it is doing something only a daily paper can do.

While the spoken word can travel faster, you can’t take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed wholly at the convenience of the reader.

Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure.

There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation.

The newspaper fits the reader’s program while the listener must fit the broadcaster’s program.