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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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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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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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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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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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.