Abbott Joseph "A. J." Liebling (October 18, 1904 – December 28, 1963) was an American journalist who was closely associated with The New Yorker from 1935 until his death. Read full biography of A. J. Liebling →
Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.
The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.
An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.
The way to write is well, and how is your own business.
There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor.
I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.
I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy.
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... →
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... →
To the Parisians, and especially to the children, all Americans are now 'heros du cinema.' This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive... →
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures. No ascetic can be considered reliably sane.
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.
Abbott Joseph "A. J." Liebling (October 18, 1904 – December 28, 1963) was an American journalist who was closely associated with The New Yorker from 1935 until his death.