Robert Littell
Robert Littell
Robert Littellis an American novelist and journalist who resides in France. He specializes in spy novels that often concern the CIA and the Soviet Union...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth8 January 1935
CountryUnited States of America
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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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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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Fill your pages with details. Work hard to get the right word.
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The difference between and amateur and a professional.. a professional believes if a job is worth doing, it is worth doing well. An amateur believes if a job is worth doing, it very well may be worth doing badly.
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I am a bookworm. For play, I bury myself in the corners of libraries and read.
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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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For me, Fitzgerald was one of the great American writers of the last century; a wordsmith, a storyteller, a perfectionist.
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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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Mark Twain said, 'The right word is to the nearly right word as lightning is to the lightning bug.' Fill your book with lightning.