Irvin S. Cobb
(Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb)
American author, humorist, editor and columnist from Paducah, Kentucky who relocated to New York during 1904, living there for the remainder of his life.
He wrote for the New York World, Joseph Pulitzer's newspaper, as the highest paid staff reporter in the United States.
Cobb also wrote more than 60 books and 300 short stories. Some of his works were adapted for silent movies. Several of his Judge Priest short stories were adapted for two feature films during the 1930s directed by John Ford.
“If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.”
Irvin S. Cobb
“If writers were good business men, they'd have too much sense to be writers.”
Irvin S. Cobb
“Down our way we're always had a theory that the Civil War was not brought on by Secession of Slavery or the State's Rights issue. These matters contributed to the quarrel, but there is a deeper reason. It was bought on by some Yankee coming down south and putting nutmeg in a julep. So our folks up and left the Union flat.”
Irvin S. Cobb
“Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.”
Irvin S. Cobb