Quote by Robert Littell

Fill your pages with details. Work hard to get the right word.

— Robert Littell

“To the success of our hopeless cause”

— Robert Littell

“Life is short,” I told her. “The challenge is to make it sweet.”

— 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…

— Robert Littell

For me, Fitzgerald was one of the great American writers of the last century; a wordsmith, a storyteller, a perfectionist.

— 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.”

— 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…

— 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…

— Robert Littell

“I am a bookworm. For play, I bury myself in the corners of libraries and read.”

— Robert Littell

“The conversation had gotten off on the wrong foot and she knew it.”

— 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…

— Robert Littell

The poetry of Walt Whitman. I can return again and again to these magnificent poems and still get pleasure from reading them.

— Robert Littell