Narrative becomes the way you make sense of chaos. That's how you focus the world. It's the only reason you should ever… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
I was not going to use writing for advertising or journalism. I would tend bar, load trucks, chauffeur - do whatever it… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
I love to write, so it rarely seems like work - even when it gets arduous. — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
I believe so deeply in the primacy of language, in lifting your prose to the highest level you're capable of and making… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
“You should write because some stray scrap of your soul is trying to manifest itself verbally.” — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
It's very simple. If you learn how to write well, to write with depth, cream will rise to the top. You'll get… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
It's good not only to realize that you can't please all of the people all of the time, but that you don't… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
Visitation Street is urban opera writ large. Gritty and magical, filled with mystery, poetry and pain, Ivy Pochoda’s voice recalls Richard Price,… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
I found that I could write two kinds of short stories: I could write very absurd, kind of surrealistic, funny stories; or… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
He wondered if this was what clinical depression felt like, a total numbness, a weary lack of hope. — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
I held her, he wanted to say, and if I knew for certain that all it would take to hold her again would be… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
“Everyone I know lies, breaks their word, and has perfectly legitimate excuses for why they do. Except you. Haven't you ever noticed that? Two… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
“If a man was lucky, he was moving toward something his whole life.” — dennis lehane Copy Share Image
“After my daughter was born, I'd considered buying a shotgun to ward off potention suitors fourteen or so years up the road. Now, as… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
“I once again felt an odd flush of admiration for my partner's faith in a religion I had long ago abandoned. She doesn't advertise… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
“And she was-definitely-a woman who did not shrink from gauntlets, but stepped up to them, and said, Okay, bring it. Bring your worst. I… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
“Jimmy looked back over at his wife, and Celeste could feel the tenderest of aches in the look. She could feel another teardrop piece… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
“She told him that he had the most beautiful voice she'd ever heard, that it sounded like whiskey and wood smoke.” — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
My daughter squealed again and both Bubba and I winced. It’s not an attractive sound, that. It’s high-pitched and it enters your ear canals… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
“The only people who ask questions like ‘Did he want to be something besides a bartender?’ are people who can become whatever they want.… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
