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 culinary appetite
The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.
funny media-control politics
Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.
witty humorous writing
I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.
loss islands light
In the light of what Proust wrote with so mild a stimulus, it is the world's loss that he did not have a heartier appetite. On a dozen Gardiner's Island oysters, a bowl of clam chowder, a peck of steamers, some bay scallops, three sauteed soft-shelled crabs, a few ears of fresh picked corn, a thin swordfish steak of generous area, a pair of lobsters, and a Long Island Duck, he might have written a masterpiece.
real past boston
Any city may have one period of magnificence, like Boston or New Orleans or San Francisco, but it takes a real one to keep renewing itself until the past is perennially forgotten.
shy sandwiches used
I used to be shy about ordering a steak after I had eaten a steak sandwich, but I got used to it.
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.
inexperience cynicism products
Cynicism is often the shamefaced product of inexperience.
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.
hypocrisy old-friends capacity
My old friend looked at me with a new respect. He was discovering in me a capacity for hypocrisy that he had never credited me with before.
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,
christmas fall mean
The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings.