Books can accommodate the proximity of computers but it doesn't seem to work the other way around. Computers now literally drive out… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
“i'd hate to read all these books...that much reading could put your eyes out.” — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
I suppose you set up reading the Good Book all night-spoken by Woodrow Call — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
A bookman’s love of books is a love of books, not merely of the information in them. — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
I remember that the single most vicious letter I ever read was the letter Hemingway wrote Scribners when they asked him to… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
Writing is a form of herding. I herd words into little paragraph-like clusters. — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
“if you repeat a temporary answer often enough, it acquires a degree of permanency.” — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
“The first difference Newt noticed about being grown up was that time didn't pass as slow.” — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
-she remembered them kindly, for there was a sweetness in boys that didn't last long, once they became men. — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
A man who wouldn't cheat for a poke don't want one bad enough. --Augustus "Gus" McCrae — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
“Ride with an outlaw, die with him," he added. "I admit it's a harsh code. But you rode on the other side long enough… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
WHEN AUGUSTUS CAME OUT on the porch the blue pigs were eating a rattlesnake—not a very big one. It had probably just been crawling… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
Books can accommodate the proximity of computers but it doesn't seem to work the other way around. Computers now literally drive out books from… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
The reason men are so awful is because some woman has spoiled them. — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
“Sometimes Sonny felt like he was the only human creature in the town. It was a bad feeling, and it usually came on him… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
“. . . he had learned in his years of tracking Indians that things which seemed impossible often weren't. They only became so if… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
Nobody run off with her,” Roscoe said. "She just run off with herself, I guess. — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
Americans' lack of passion for history is well known. History may not quite be bunk, as Henry Ford suggested, but there's no denying that,… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
“I figured out something, Lorie,” he said. “I figured out why you and me get along so well. You know more than you say… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
