Alcoholics Quote by James Purdy Download Open image “Most journalists are broken down alcoholics.” — James Purdy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Alcoholics Broken Broken down Journalist
I often wonder if all the writers who are alcoholics drink a lot because they aren't writing. It is not because they are writers… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
There is another reason journalists like to drink and eat together: they simply cannot think of better company. — Osborn Elliott Copy Share Image
Journalists are more powerful now than they've ever been, and we all know what power does. Anyone who disses the media is really asking… — Charles McGrath Copy Share Image
Alcohol had a lot to do with it, too, and mental instability. All writers are narcissistic, manic-depressive drug addicts and alcoholics, and I am… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
“Writers choose to drink because of their inability to cope with the daily hassles of being part of a society. Why shouldn’t they? Every… — Thor Benson Copy Share Image
I changed my mind. I don’t want to be an inveshtigative journalist anymore. I want to be a professional rum drinker.” “There are people… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
I'm not a writer with a drinking problem, I'm a drinker with a writing problem. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Journalism is "a low trade and a habit worse than heroin, a strange seedy world of misfits and drunkards and failures. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“Hemingway and Fitzgerald didn’t drink because they were creative, alienated, or morally weak. They drank because it’s what alkies are wired up to do.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
All writers are egomaniacal, manic-depressive, drug-addicted alcoholics. You want to have that fix again. — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
“Pleasure died forty years ago in America, perhaps further back, in a wave of carbon monoxide, gasoline, cigarettes for dames, the belief in everything… — James Purdy Copy Share Image
Feeling is taboo, especially in New York. I read in some little magazine the other day that The New Yorker and The New York… — James Purdy Copy Share Image
I am against all machines. It's no wonder that so many Americans go on dope when they have no other cultural stimulus than a… — James Purdy Copy Share Image
There's the world of the newspapers. They believe that what is happening is happening, which is so naïve. Because they're the first to turn… — James Purdy Copy Share Image
Margaret Meade is always running around saying that marijuana's just like bread and water! Well, bread and water are poison, and marijuana's a poison.… — James Purdy Copy Share Image
I don't have any home. Everyone I grew up with, my family, are all dead. So I feel kind of like a ghost. I'm… — James Purdy Copy Share Image
“Writing is like a battle. You’re often so into it you don’t have any high ideals. You’re just doing it. I have all these… — James Purdy Copy Share Image
None of my books are best-sellers. In fact, the only thing that's kept me alive is the books that are in paperback. People find… — James Purdy Copy Share Image
Television masturbates its audience even though the audience is not really watching. It masturbates orifices the audience doesn't have. It sticks holes in the… — James Purdy Copy Share Image
Sometimes they were together so often that it felt as though they really were a couple; sometimes weeks and months would go by before… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I'm not an alcoholic, I am freedom fighter against the teetotal taliban.” — Al Murray Copy Share Image
If you decide on having an alcoholic at your party, make sure it's a large gathering. This way, until the alcoholic begins removing their… — Amy Sedaris Copy Share Image
I started drinking when I was like 15, and by the time I was 19 everybody knew I was an alcoholic. So I would… — Felipe Esparza Copy Share Image
There are plenty of alcoholics who can be magnificent when drunk: it does not make them any less alcoholic. — Ingrid Bengis Copy Share Image
The idea that the creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time. ... Substance abusing… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It is most absurdly said, in popular language, of any man, that he is disguised in liquor; for, on the contrary, most men are… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
I haven't had an alcoholic drink in 22 years, but when I did drink I'd go for either Canadian whisky or Budweiser. Sometimes both.… — Alice Cooper Copy Share Image
I got thrown out of Alcoholics because when the other clients saw me they thought they were having the DT's — Dave Dutton Copy Share Image
I placed myself in amongst the animal kingdom so that I would be able to confront myself actually. It did not start out as… — Timothy Treadwell Copy Share Image
I don't like the word 'alcoholic'. I like to think of myself as an advanced drinker. — Chelsea Handler Copy Share Image
I feel that people who haven't read my books and haven't heard me lecture - who don't in fact know what my work is… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
