A. J. Liebling Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• 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.

  A. J. Liebling

  Writing, Pay, Firsts

  A. J. Liebling (2005). “Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer”, p.59, Macmillan

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

  A. J. Liebling

  Food, Writing, Cooking

  A. J. Liebling (2005). “Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer”, p.27, Macmillan

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

  A. J. Liebling

  Witty, Powerful, Humorous

• Newspapers write about other newspapers with circumspection, ... about themselves with awe, and only after mature reflection.

  A. J. Liebling

  Writing, Reflection, Mature

• 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

  Writing, Impossible, Eating

  A. J. Liebling (2005). “Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer”, p.25, Macmillan

• Henry Miller may write about revelers self-woven into a human hooked rug, because his ecstasy is solemn.

  A. J. Liebling

  Writing, Self, Woven

  A. J. Liebling (2016). “Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris”, p.27, North Point Press

• The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.

  A. J. Liebling

  Writing, Way, Damn

• I can write better than anyone who can write faster.

  A. J. Liebling

  Writing, Faster, I Can

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