“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.” — Robert Littell Copy Share Image
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. — Robert Littell Copy Share Image
“The difference between and amateur and a professional.. a professional believes if a job is worth doing, it is worth doing well. An amateur… — Robert Littell Copy Share Image
For me, Fitzgerald was one of the great American writers of the last century; a wordsmith, a storyteller, a perfectionist. — Robert Littell Copy Share Image
“Cole was meticulous to a fault; office scuttlebut had it that he never went out in public without first having his shoelaces ironed.” — Robert Littell Copy Share Image
I am not conventionally religious, but I am an ongoing student of the Old and the New Testament and the history of the Jewish… — Robert Littell Copy Share Image
“Everything, as Mr. Yul Brynner used to tell us six nights a week and Saturday matinees, is a puzzlement.” — Robert Littell Copy Share Image
I am an amateur mountain climber. Once or twice a year I go off to Chamonix in the French Alps, under Mont Blanc, and… — Robert Littell Copy Share Image
“I am a bookworm. For play, I bury myself in the corners of libraries and read.” — Robert Littell Copy Share Image
“The conversation had gotten off on the wrong foot and she knew it.” — Robert Littell Copy Share Image
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… — Robert Littell Copy Share Image
The poetry of Walt Whitman. I can return again and again to these magnificent poems and still get pleasure from reading them. — Robert Littell Copy Share Image
“We need to take our cue from the drug dealers in Hoboken who, when they reach twenty, go to the local undertaker and prepay… — Robert Littell Copy Share Image
Mark Twain said, 'The right word is to the nearly right word as lightning is to the lightning bug.' Fill your book with lightning. — Robert Littell Copy Share Image
