Jimmy Breslin Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.”

“Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.”

“Pick up any newspaper in the morning. Count the words in the lead sentences. There will be at least 25 in all of them: Guaranteed. The writers just want to tell you how many degrees they have from this college or that university.”

“The professional arsonist builds vacant lots for money.”

“Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me.”

“I don't know any other columnists, and I don't know what they do. I work the single! And nobody does what I do, anyway.”

“If a man, for private profit, tears at the public news, does so with the impatience of one who thinks he actually owns the news you get, it is against the national interest.”

“Complainant received immediate lacerations of the credibility.”

“I played football. I played trumpet. I could draw.”

“If you gather a lot of stuff, then you write it, write in scenes with dialogue. Somewhere in the middle, rising from all this research like strong metal towers, is your opinions.”