88 Quotes by Jimmy Breslin

Newspapers are so boring. How can you read a newspaper that starts with a 51-word lead sentence?

Don't try to tell Namath's people on First Avenue about Babe Ruth, because they don't even know the name. In fact, with the young, you can forget all of baseball. The sport is gone. But if you ever have seen Ruth, and then you see Namath, you know there is very little difference.

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.

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.

Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.

If you gather a lot of stuff, then you write it, write in scenes with dialogue. Somewhere in the middle, rising from all this research like strong metal towers, is your opinions.

I don't know any other columnists, and I don't know what they do. I work the single! And nobody does what I do, anyway.

Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks.

I played football. I played trumpet. I could draw.