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- Leaders are problem solvers by talent and temperament, and by choice. For them, the new information environment-undermining old means of control, opening… — Harlan Cleveland
- I was so lucky that I didn't have anyone to copy, be impressed by. I had developed my own style, I was… — Shel Silverstein
- Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mouse waltzes. — Elwyn Brooks White
- Thurber was asked by a correspondent: "Why did you have a comma in the sentence, 'After dinner, the men went into the… — Lynne Truss
- It was Lisa, aged five, whose mother asked her to thank my wife for the peas we had sent them from our… — James Thurber
- Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists,… — Leo Rosten
- Many of the writers who have inspired me most are outside the genre: Humorists like Robert Benchley and James Thurber, screenwriters like… — John Scalzi