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Every rejection is incremental payment on your dues that in some way will be translated back into your work.
James Lee Burke
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James Lee Burke
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: December 5
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Age is a peculiar kind of thief. It slips up on you and steps inside your skin and is so quiet and methodical in its work that you never realize it has stolen your youth until you look into the mirror one morning and see a man you don't recognize.
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But perhaps age has taught me that the earth is still new, molten at the core and still forming, that black leaves in the winter forest will crawl with life in the spring, that our story is ongoing and it is indeed a crime to allow the heart's energies to dissipate with the fading of light on the horizon.
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I feel blessed in the knowledge that I probably belong to the last generation that will remember what we call traditional America.
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We all end up in the same place. Some sonner than others.
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Using a first-person narrator is simply a matter of hearing the voice inside yourself.
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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?
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...and I wonder if there is any way to adequately describe the folly that causes us to undo all the great gifts of both Earth and Heaven.
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I could only wonder again at the white race's naïveté in always sending forth our worst members as our emissaries.
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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 submission, you never leave it at home.
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We gain no wisdom by imposing our way on others.
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Write for the love of your art. Someplace down the road, the money, the fame, they'll come, but by that time you won't be thinking in terms of money or fame.
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That's one of the great advantages of age. You can say, I don't want to, I don't care, you can throw temper tantrums, and nobody minds.
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Success, like fashion, is a fickle companion and can leave one in the wink of an eye.
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To misuse one's talent, to be cavalier about it, to set it aside because of fear or sloth is unpardonable.
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There is no higher form of artistic expression then film
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What's the worst thing about getting old? Getting old.
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Is there a design in the events of our lives? Or do things just happen, much like a junk yard falling down a staircase? If it's the latter, how do you deal with it?
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And like most middle-aged people who hear the clock ticking in their lives, I had come to resent a waste or theft of my time that was greater than any theft of my goods or money.
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I think the crime novel has replaced the sociological novel of the 1930s. I think the progenitor of that tradition is James M. Cain, who in my view is the most neglected writer in American literature.
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Neither our own passing nor the passing of an era is a tragedy, no matter how much we would like to think it is.
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