“Sometimes your luck runs out and you have to accept that the life you planned was a dream written on water.” — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
How do you explain to yourself the casual manner in which you threw your life away? — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
You have two choices in life. You either die or do something with your time. You're going to be doing something -… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
“At some point in your life, you have to give up anger or it will destroy your spirit the way cancer destroys… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
“The best moments in life are not the kind many historians record.” — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
I wouldn't write anything autobiographical. If you've lived a life like Laurence of Arabia, it might be a consideration, but otherwise it's… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
“There's another way to put it. Sometimes your luck runs out and you have to accept that the life you planned was… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
“Through the screen, he could smell the evening as though it were a living presence, the purple and yellow flowers in his… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
But perhaps age has taught me that the earth is still new, molten at the core and still forming, that black leaves… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
“I had seen a dawn like this one only twice in my life: once in Vietnam, when a Bouncing Betty had risen… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
But the participants [in war] never forgot the details of their experience, and like the Wandering Jew, they were condemned to remain their own… — James Lee Burke Copy Share
“A wet cigarette butt clung to my cheek like a mashed cockroach. I could smell whiskey and beer in my clothes and Gable’s blood… — James Lee Burke Copy Share
“And I suppose that what I have learned is a lesson that the years, or self-concern, had begun to hide from me, namely, that… — James Lee Burke Copy Share
“The Homeric Epic does not have to be discovered inside a book; it begins just west of Fort Worth and extends all the way… — James Lee Burke Copy Share
“I would almost forget about Ida Durbin. But a sin of omission, if indeed that's what it was, can be like the rusty head… — James Lee Burke Copy Share
The best thing about being a best-selling writer is being a best-selling writer. More seriously, today I can write full time and pay the… — James Lee Burke Copy Share
If there is any human tragedy, there is only one, and it occurs when we forget who we are and remain silent while a… — James Lee Burke Copy Share
I sometimes subscribe to the belief that all historical events occur simultaneously, like a dream in the mind of God. Perhaps it is only… — James Lee Burke Copy Share
“When a man molests a woman or girl, he steals her identity. You don't know who you are anymore. You don't have an address… — James Lee Burke Copy Share
writing is like being in love. You never get better at it or learn more about it. The day you think you do is… — James Lee Burke Copy Share
Using a first-person narrator is simply a matter of hearing the voice inside yourself. — James Lee Burke Copy Share
