Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by James Alexander Thom

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Last updated on December 21, 2024.

James Alexander Craig Thom is an American author, best known for his works in the Western genre and colonial American history which are noted for their historical accuracy borne of his painstaking research. Thom graduated from Butler University in 1961 with a BA in Journalism after serving in the United States Marine Corps in the Korean War. He taught a course in journalism at Indiana University, and was a contributor to The Saturday Evening Post.

American - Author | Born: May 28, 1933

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If there is a rumor in the air about you, you'd better treat it as you would a wasp: either ignore it or kill it with the first blow. Anything else will just stir it up.

James Alexander Thom

We pick bygone time up by the handfuls and, like clay, see if it feels right and then form it into stories about the past.

James Alexander Thom

Aphorism, n.: A concise, clever statement you don’t think of until too late.

James Alexander Thom

To read Lucia St. Clair Robson is to learn while being thoroughly entertained. Last Train from Cuernavaca puts us through the tragic violence and political treachery of the Mexican Revolution and its consequences so intimately that we feel hunger, lust, thirst, grief, and saddle sores, and admire anew the awesome durability and courage of the people of Mexico-- especially the women.

James Alexander Thom

Too often we seek justice for just us.

James Alexander Thom

For every time we regret keeping still, there are about ten times we regret speaking up.

James Alexander Thom

Probably the most honest "self-made person" ever was the one we heard say: "I got to the top the hard way - fighting my own laziness and ignorance every step of the way."

James Alexander Thom

Whether a character in your novel is full of choler, bile, phlegm, blood or plain old buffalo chips, the fire of life is in there, too, as long as that character lives.

James Alexander Thom

A closed mouth gathers no foot.

James Alexander Thom

Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by James Alexander Thom

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