Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by A. J. Liebling (American Journalist)

A. J. Liebling (1904–63,) fully Abbott Joseph “Joe” Liebling, was an American journalist and press critic. He was associated with The New Yorker 1935–63, for which he wrote the ‘Wayward Press’ column 1945–63.

Born in New York City, Liebling was kicked out of Dartmouth for avoiding too many chapel services, so he joined the School of Journalism at Columbia University. He also studied medieval literature at the Sorbonne for a year. Liebling became a staff writer and a World War II correspondent for The New Yorke . He was present at the D-Day invasion of Normandy and was with the Allied forces when they liberated Paris.

Liebling ignored politics and combat strategy and just addressed day-to-day life among the soldiers and the civilians. Liebling’s essays and reportage from the war were collected in The Road Back to Paris (1944.) After the war, Liebling was awarded the Cross of the Légion d’honneur by the French government for his war-reporting.

Liebling later used his experiences as the subject for his New Yorker column, ‘The Wayward Press.’ He did some of his best work on boxing, publishing The Sweet Science (1956.) His other works include The Wayward Pressman (1947.)

Liebling also wrote about gourmet food, and one of his most famous books is Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris (1959.) A posthumous collection of his writings is Just Enough Liebling (2004.)

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The world isn’t going backward, if you can just stay young enough to remember what it was really like when you were really young.
A. J. Liebling

I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.
A. J. Liebling
Topics: Writing, Authors & Writing, Writers

Cynicism is often the shamefaced product of inexperience.
A. J. Liebling

The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.
A. J. Liebling
Topics: Media

Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.
A. J. Liebling
Topics: Journalism, Journalists

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