Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do. — George V. Higgins Copy Share Image
Show the reader what the character thinks about, and then the reader will think about it too. — George V. Higgins Copy Share Image
Nobody ever got started on a career as a writer by exercising good judgment, and no one ever will, either, so the sooner you… — George V. Higgins Copy Share Image
“The customary blizzard of pigeons wheeled briefly across the walk and settled back around an old lady who fed them from a large, wrinkled,… — George V. Higgins Copy Share Image
“Nobody ever got started on a career as a writer by exercising good judgment, and no one ever will, either, so the sooner you… — George V. Higgins Copy Share Image
Rental formal wear of the sky-blue, brocade and shiny varieties is favored by upwardly mobile young gangsters drafted as groomsmen for weddings. — George V. Higgins Copy Share Image
The characters are telling you the story. I’m not telling you the story, they’re going to do it. If I do it right, you… — George V. Higgins Copy Share Image
The Red Sox are a religion. Every year we re-enact the agony and the temptation in the Garden. Baseball child's play? Hell, up here… — George V. Higgins Copy Share Image
