Alfred Bertram Guthrie Quotes

United States, Novelist
January 13, 1901 – April, 26, 1991.

Alfred Bertram Guthrie Jr. was an American novelist, screenwriter, historian, and literary historian known for writing western stories. His novel The Way West won the 1950 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and his screenplay for Shane (1953) was nominated for an Academy Award.

Also known as Screenwriter, Historian

The adjective is the enemy of the noun and the adverb the enemy of damn near everything else. Nouns and verbs are the guts of the language.

Alfred Bertram Guthrie
The day with work that must be done snapped at her heels like an untrained pup.

Alfred Bertram Guthrie
- Work
- Day
- Snapped

Fiction is love and hate and agreement and conflict and common adventure, not lonely musings on have – beens and might – have – beens.

Alfred Bertram Guthrie
- Love
- Hate
- Adventure
The Christian is like the ripening corn; the riper he grows the more lowly he bends his head.

Alfred Bertram Guthrie
- Christian
- Head
- Corn
Good enough is never good enough.

Alfred Bertram Guthrie
- Good
- Never
- Enough
If you are inclined to leave your character solitary for any considerable length of time, better question yourself. Fiction is association, not withdrawal.

Alfred Bertram Guthrie