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> [For me, Fitzgerald was one of the great American writers of the last century; a wordsmith, a storyteller, a perfectionist.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-littell/for-me-fitzgerald-was-one-of-the-great-american-writers-of-the-last/)

[Robert Littell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-littell/)

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## Other authors on Fitzgerald

## More by Robert Littell

> [Fill your pages with details. Work hard to get the right word.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-littell/fill-your-pages-with-details-work-hard-to-get-the-right-word/)

[Robert Littell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-littell/)

> [“To the success of our hopeless cause”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-littell/to-the-success-of-our-hopeless-cause/)

[Robert Littell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-littell/)

> [“Life is short,” I told her. “The challenge is to make it sweet.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-littell/life-is-short-i-told-her-the-challenge-is-to-make-it-sweet/)

[Robert Littell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-littell/)

> [“The difference between and amateur and a professional.. a professional believes if a job is worth doing, it is worth doing well. An amateur…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-littell/the-difference-between-and-amateur-and-a-professional-a-professional/)

[Robert Littell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-littell/)

> [For me, Fitzgerald was one of the great American writers of the last century; a wordsmith, a storyteller, a perfectionist.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-littell/for-me-fitzgerald-was-one-of-the-great-american-writers-of-the-last/)

[Robert Littell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-littell/)

> [“Cole was meticulous to a fault; office scuttlebut had it that he never went out in public without first having his shoelaces ironed.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-littell/cole-was-meticulous-to-a-fault-office-scuttlebut-had-it-that-he-never/)

[Robert Littell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-littell/)

> [I am not conventionally religious, but I am an ongoing student of the Old and the New Testament and the history of the Jewish…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-littell/i-am-not-conventionally-religious-but-i-am-an-ongoing-student-of-the/)

[Robert Littell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-littell/)

> [“Everything, as Mr. Yul Brynner used to tell us six nights a week and Saturday matinees, is a puzzlement.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-littell/everything-as-mr-yul-brynner-used-to-tell-us-six-nights-a-week-and/)

[Robert Littell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-littell/)

> [I am an amateur mountain climber. Once or twice a year I go off to Chamonix in the French Alps, under Mont Blanc, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-littell/i-am-an-amateur-mountain-climber-once-or-twice-a-year-i-go-off-to/)

[Robert Littell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-littell/)

> [“I am a bookworm. For play, I bury myself in the corners of libraries and read.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-littell/i-am-a-bookworm-for-play-i-bury-myself-in-the-corners-of-libraries/)

[Robert Littell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-littell/)

> [“The conversation had gotten off on the wrong foot and she knew it.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-littell/the-conversation-had-gotten-off-on-the-wrong-foot-and-she-knew-it/)

[Robert Littell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-littell/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-littell/when-people-ask-me-if-i-have-worked-for-the-c-i-a-i-often-answer-what/)

[Robert Littell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-littell/)

> [The poetry of Walt Whitman. I can return again and again to these magnificent poems and still get pleasure from reading them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-littell/the-poetry-of-walt-whitman-i-can-return-again-and-again-to-these/)

[Robert Littell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-littell/)

> [“We need to take our cue from the drug dealers in Hoboken who, when they reach twenty, go to the local undertaker and prepay…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-littell/we-need-to-take-our-cue-from-the-drug-dealers-in-hoboken-who-when/)

[Robert Littell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-littell/)

> [Mark Twain said, 'The right word is to the nearly right word as lightning is to the lightning bug.' Fill your book with lightning.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-littell/mark-twain-said-the-right-word-is-to-the-nearly-right-word-as/)

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