A. J. Liebling
A. J. Liebling
Abbott Joseph "A. J." Lieblingwas an American journalist who was closely associated with The New Yorker from 1935 until his death...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth18 October 1904
CountryUnited States of America
writing self woven
Henry Miller may write about revelers self-woven into a human hooked rug, because his ecstasy is solemn.
writing reflection mature
Newspapers write about other newspapers with circumspection, ... about themselves with awe, and only after mature reflection.
writing way damn
The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.
writing impossible eating
The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.
writing pay firsts
If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.
writing faster i-can
I can write better than anyone who can write faster,
witty humorous writing
I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.
writing culinary appetite
The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.
evening man morning paper
A city with one newspaper, or with a morning and an evening paper under one ownership, is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass.
american-journalist business
The way to write is well, and how is your own business.
stupid wine men
Our hypothetical rich client might even have ordered a Pommard, because it was listed at a higher price...He would have never learned [about other wines]. A man who is rich in his adolescence is almost doomed to be a dilettante at table. This is not because all millionaires are stupid but because they are not impelled to experiment.
knowledge survival anomalies
It is an anomaly that information, the one thing most necessary to our survival as choosers of our own way, should be a commodity subject to the same merchandising rules as chewing gum.
healthy stories way
There is a healthy American newspaper tradition of not taking yourself seriously It is the story you must take that way... And if you do take yourself seriously, according to this sound convention, you are supposed to do your best not to let anyone else know about it. (Like bed-wetting.)
sleep two southern
If there is any way you can get colder than you do when you sleep in a bedding roll on the ground in a tent in southern Tunisia two hours before dawn, I don't know about it.