American - Journalist | October 18, 1904 - December 28, 1963
An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.
A. J. Liebling
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A Louisiana politician can't afford to let his animosities carry him away, and still less his principles, although there is seldom difficulty in that department.
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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.
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Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.
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People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
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The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.
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I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.
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Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place.
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I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy.
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The way to write is well, and how is your own business.
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If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.
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It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.
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