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.
From Jimmy Breslin
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.
Newspapers are so boring. How can you read a newspaper that starts with a 51-word lead sentence?
The professional arsonist builds vacant lots for money.
Those of Manhattan are the brokers on Wall Street and they talk of people who went to the same colleges; those from Queens are margin clerks in the back offices and they speak of friends who live in the same neighborhood.
Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me.
Football is a game designed to keep coal miners off the streets.
Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks.
I played football. I played trumpet. I could draw.
I became a copy boy. Not for long. I started writing stories.
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