Best James Lee Burke Quotes
- You have two choices in life. You either die or do something with your time. You're going to be doing something - why not write? Choices
- Using a first-person narrator is simply a matter of hearing the voice inside yourself. First Person
- The story of Ulysses and Agamemnon and Menelaus, of Jesus, of the Good Knight of Chaucer, lives in every one of us. Agamemnon
- 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 a little bit… Anything Autobiographical
- If you put somebody on a crack pipe and give them a 9 mm Baretta, you don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure… Baretta
- Never read bad stuff if you're an artist; it will impair your own game. Artist
- The only thing an artist has to remember is to never lose faith in his vision. Artist
- Today, there are more opportunities for writers in terms of access to larger success, but it's more difficult to publish a literary novel in the… Access
- You do it a day at a time. You write as well as you can, you put it in the mail, you leave it under… Day
- God bless the Reference Librarians Bless
- I looked at Lucas with the pang that a parent feels when he knows his child will be hurt and that it's no one's fault… Act
- How do you caution a fawn about a cigarette a motorist has just flipped from his car window into a patch of yellow grass, or… Car
- Louisiana is a fresh-air mental asylum. Air
- I believe every...man remembers the girl he thinks he should have married. She reappears to him in his lonely moments, or he sees her in… Anyone
- Money can't buy happiness but it'll sure keep a mess of grief off your front porch. Buy
- How do you explain to yourself the casual manner in which you threw your life away? Casual
- Then the sun broke above the crest of the hills and the entire countryside looked soaked in blood, the arroyos deep in shadow, the cones… Arroyos
- When people make a contract with the devil and give him an air-conditioned office to work in, he doesn't go back home easily. Air
- A lie is an act of theft. It steals peoples faith and makes them resent themselves Act
- I sometimes subscribe to the belief that all historical events occur simultaneously, like a dream in the mind of God. Perhaps it is only man… All
- And every good artist knows that the gift comes from somewhere else, and it's there for a reason, and that's to make the world a… Artist
- Humility is not a virtue in a writer, it is an absolute necessity. Absolute
- In the alluvial sweep of the land, I thought I could see the past and the present and the future all at once, as though… All
- It has been my experience that most human stories are circular rather than linear. Regardless of the path we choose, we somehow end up where… Along
- Why do I always feel like you're trying to staple my umbilical cord to the corner of your desk? Always Feel