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
You see, the Mets are losers, just like nearly everybody else in life. This is the team for the cab driver who gets held up and the guy who loses out on a promotion because he didn't maneuver himself to lunch with the boss enough. It is the team for every guy who has to get out of bed in the morning and go to work for short money on a job he does not like. The Yankees? Who does well enough to root for them, Laurence Rockefeller?
I became a copy boy. Not for long. I started writing stories.
When you leave New York you ain't going anywhere.
Don't trust a brilliant idea unless it survives the hangover.
Media, the plural of mediocrity.
The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit.
True New Yorkers do not really seek information about the outside world. They feel that if anything is not in New York it is not likely to be interesting.
A job on a newspaper is a special thing. Every day you take something that you found out about, and you put it down and in a matter of hours it becomes a product. Not just a product like a can or something. It is a personal product that people, a lot of people, take the time to sit down and read.