Jimmy Breslin
Jimmy Breslin
Jimmy Breslinis a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist and author. He currently writes a column for the New York Daily News Sunday edition. He has written numerous novels, and columns of his have appeared regularly in various newspapers in his hometown of New York City. He served as a regular columnist for the Long Island, NY newspaper Newsday until his retirement on November 2, 2004, though he still publishes occasional pieces for the paper...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntertainer
Date of Birth17 October 1930
CountryUnited States of America
Newspapers are so boring. How can you read a newspaper that starts with a 51-word lead sentence?
That's the horrible thing starting out, you get distracted a lot because anything is easier than writing. It's just the same enemy - blank paper.
Out in the ocean, a rope is put around the man's neck. The other end of the rope is attached to an old jukebox and it is thrown overboard. The man invariably follows.
Those of Manhattan are the brokers on Wall Street and they talk of people who went to the same colleges; those from Queens are margin clerks in the back offices and they speak of friends who live in the same neighborhood.
The professional arsonist builds vacant lots for money.
I busted out of the place in a hurry and went to a saloon and drank beer and said that for the rest of my life I'd never take a job in a place where you couldn't throw cigarette butts on the floor. I was hooked on this writing for newspapers and magazines.
The other feature is a gymnasium named after another dead politician who was gifted with fast and extremely sure hands.
Men in the uniform of Wall Street retirement: black Chesterfield coat, rimless glasses and the Times folded to the obituary page..
What you want to do is not go to work. You're not missing a thing. The worst thing I did was start work young.
When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.
Media, the plural of mediocrity.
Anything that isn't writing is easy
The first funeral for Andrew Goodman was at night and it was a lot of work. To begin with they had to kill him.
Rage is ... This is Breslin's full quote: Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers