Tag Archives: A. J. Liebling

I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better. A. J. Liebling

To the Parisians, and especially to the children, all Americans are now 'heros du cinema.' This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive war correspondents, if any, aware, as they are, that these innocent thanks belong to those American combat troops who won the beachhead and then made the breakthrough. There are few such men in Paris. […]

Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place. A. J. Liebling

A city with one newspaper, or with a morning and an evening paper under one ownership, is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass. A. J. Liebling

The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money. A. J. Liebling

The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels. A. J. Liebling

An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed. A. J. Liebling

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. A. J. Liebling

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

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