A cop told me, a long time ago, that there’s no substitute for knowing what you’re doing. Most of us scribblers do not. The ones that’re any good are aware of this. The rest write silly stuff. The trouble is… — 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
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
The seductiveness of baseball is that almost everyone with an abiding interest in it knows exactly how it should be played. And secretly believes… — George V. Higgins Copy Share Image
A cop told me, a long time ago, that there’s no substitute for knowing what you’re doing. Most of us scribblers do not. The… — George V. Higgins Copy Share Image
