American - Author | January 8, 1935 -
Fill your pages with details. Work hard to get the right word.
Robert Littell
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Mark Twain said, 'The right word is to the nearly right word as lightning is to the lightning bug.' Fill your book with lightning.
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I am an amateur mountain climber. Once or twice a year I go off to Chamonix in the French Alps, under Mont Blanc, and with a guide do treks that include rock climbing at high altitude.
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I am not conventionally religious, but I am an ongoing student of the Old and the New Testament and the history of the Jewish people and the birth of Christianity.
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For me, Fitzgerald was one of the great American writers of the last century; a wordsmith, a storyteller, a perfectionist.
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The poetry of Walt Whitman. I can return again and again to these magnificent poems and still get pleasure from reading them.
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When people ask me if I have worked for the C.I.A., I often answer: what good to you is my answer? Because if I did, I might not say so.
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