Don’t get it right, just get it written.
JAMES THURBERBeautiful things don’t ask for attention.
More James Thurber Quotes
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There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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I never really rallied after the birth of my first child.
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I never quite know when I’m not writing. Sometimes my wife comes up to me at a party and says, “Dammit, Thurber, stop writing.” She usually catches me in the middle of a paragraph.
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You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
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Don’t count your boobies until they are hatched.
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Humor and pathos, tears and laughter are, in the highest expression of human character and achievement, inseparable.
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With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.
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Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.
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I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.
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Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.
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I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance – a sharp, vindictive glance.
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Humourists lead… an existence of jumpiness and apprehension. They sit on the edge of the chair of Literature. In the house of Life they have the feeling that they have never taken off their overcoats.
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I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.
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Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
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Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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