Way Quote by A. J. Liebling Download Open image “The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.” — A. J. Liebling ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Way Wells Writing
Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world. — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
The business of writing is empathising with situations that aren't your own. — Richard North Patterson Copy Share Image
You just have to keep getting out of your own way so that whatever it is that wants to be written can use you… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I'm a writer, but this is a business. You have to look at it in the way you would look at any business. — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
It is an anomaly that information, the one thing most necessary to our survival as choosers of our own way, should be a commodity… — A. J. Liebling Copy Share Image
I used to be shy about ordering a steak after I had eaten a steak sandwich, but I got used to it. — A. J. Liebling Copy Share Image
The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry… — A. J. Liebling Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough… — A. J. Liebling Copy Share Image
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… — A. J. Liebling Copy Share Image
A city with one newspaper, or with a morning and an evening paper under one ownership, is like a man with one eye, and… — A. J. Liebling Copy Share Image
There is a healthy American newspaper tradition of not taking yourself seriously It is the story you must take that way... And if you… — A. J. Liebling Copy Share Image
If a boxer ever went as crazy as Nijinsky all the wowsers in the world would be screaming 'punch-drunk.' Well, who hit Nijinsky? And… — A. J. Liebling Copy Share Image
An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed. — A. J. Liebling Copy Share Image
The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new;… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
It's sort of the American way to go up and down the ladder, maybe several times in a lifetime. — Martha Stewart Copy Share Image
That we have the vote means nothing. That we use it in the right way means everything. — Lou Henry Hoover Copy Share Image
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I train my muscles, and I do a lot of stretching, and try to kick higher. But for me, practicing kung-fu is a way… — Stephen Chow Copy Share Image
You've touched people and known it. You've touched people and never may know it. Either way, you have something to give. It is in… — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
The best way to marginalize the Muslim Brotherhood [in Egypt] is in the ballot box, not through arrests and killing people. — Kelly Ayotte Copy Share Image
There has got to be a way for me to have a role on TV or in film that is just as normal as… — Adeel Akhtar Copy Share Image
The thing about hitting kids is, think about if you were doing the same thing to another adult. Hitting your kid is really the… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
Brad [Dourif] would tell himself that he was not intentionally trying to mimic Jack Nicholson in any way. I think that actually bothers him… — David Kirschner Copy Share Image
If I don't know who I'm writing for, I make it up and pick somebody I'm writing for. That's really the only way to… — Craig Mazin Copy Share Image