Humility is not a virtue in a writer, it is an absolute necessity. — 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
The best thing about being a best-selling writer is being a best-selling writer. More seriously, today I can write full time and… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
You do it a day at a time. You write as well as you can, you put it in the mail, you… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
Write for the love of your art. Someplace down the road, the money, the fame, they'll come, but by that time you… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
You do it a day at a time. You just put your rejection slips in a shoebox and tell yourself one day… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
If you don't compromise your gift, if you write each day as well as you can, and then submit your work and… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
Don't ever quit. Never quit. Never show anybody you're hurt. Grin and walk through the cannon smoke. It will drive them up… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
writing is like being in love. You never get better at it or learn more about it. The day you think you… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
Today, there are more opportunities for writers in terms of access to larger success, but it's more difficult to publish a literary… — 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
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“The best moments in life are not the kind many historians record.” — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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