Writer Quotes by Red Smith

Young men have visions, old men have dreams.

— Red Smith

I like to get where the cabbage is cooking and catch the scents.

— Red Smith

Dying is no big deal. Living is the trick.

— Red Smith

The natural habitat of the tongue is the left cheek.

— Red Smith

Writing is very much like bricklaying. You learn to put one brick on top of another and spread the mortar so thick.

— Red Smith

Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection.

— Red Smith

It was an ideal day for football - too cold for the spectators and too cold for the players.

— Red Smith

Writing is easy. Just sit in front of a typewriter, open up a vein and bleed it out drop by drop.

— Red Smith

In entertainment value, the Democratic clambake usually lays it over the Republican conclave like ice cream over parsnips.

— Red Smith

Unlike the normal pattern, I know I have grown more liberal as I've grown older. I have become more convinced that there is room…

— Red Smith

As a ballplayer, (Dizzy) Dean was a natural phenomenon, like the Grand Canyon or the Great Barrier Reef. Nobody ever taught him baseball and…

— Red Smith

I have known writers who paid no damned attention whatever to the rules of grammar and rhetoric and somehow made the language behave for…

— Red Smith

Ninety feet between the bases is the nearest thing to perfection that man has yet achieved.

— Red Smith

Any sportswriter who thinks the world is no bigger than the outfield fence in not only a bad citizen, but also a lousy sportswriter.

— Red Smith

“Writing is easy. All you have to do is sit down at the typewriter, cut open a vein, and bleed.”

— Red Smith