64 Quotes by A. J. Liebling

I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.

The way to write is well, and how is your own business.

Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place.

I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy

If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.

The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.

There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor.

The world isn't going backward, if you can just stay young enough to remember what it was really like when you were really young.

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.