James Thurber Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.

  James Thurber

  Book, Reading, Method

  James Thurber (1990). “Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself”

• I have lived in the East for nearly thirty years now, but many of my books prove that I am never very far away from Ohio in my thoughts, and that the clocks that strike in my dreams are often the clocks of Columbus.

  James Thurber

  Dream, Book, Ohio

  James Thurber, Thomas Fensch (1989). “Conversations with James Thurber”, p.126, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• In an extensive reading of recent books by psychologists, psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, and inspirationalists, I have discovered that they all suffer from one or more of these expression-complexes: italicizing, capitalizing, exclamation-pointing, multiple-interrogating, and itemizing. These are all forms of what the psychos themselves would call, if they faced their condition frankly, Rhetorical-Over-Compensation.

  James Thurber

  Reading, Book, Expression

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