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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.
James Lee Burke
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James Lee Burke
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: December 5
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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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We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent revolution, and we've been in wars ever since. We're not a pacific people.
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Hackberry Holland's greatest fear was his fellow man's propensity to act collectively, in militaristic lockstep, under the banner of God and country. Mobs did not rush across town to do good deeds, and in Hackberry's view, there was no more odious taint on any social or political endeavor than universal approval.
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Age is a clever thief. It takes a little from you each day, so you're not aware of your loss until it'd irreversible.
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What's the worst thing about getting old? Getting old.
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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 better place.
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I believe the causes that create them [serial killers] are theological in nature, rather than societal. I believe they make a conscious choice to erase God's thumbprint from their souls.
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There is no higher form of artistic expression then film
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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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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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We gain no wisdom by imposing our way on others.
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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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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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The only thing an artist has to remember is to never lose faith in his vision.
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THE ALLURE OF Montana is like a commitment to a narcotic you can never use it up or get enough of it. Its wilderness areas probably resemble the earth on the first day of creation.
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Using a first-person narrator is simply a matter of hearing the voice inside yourself.
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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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There's nothing like rejection to make you do an inventory of yourself.
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I used to save all my rejection slips because I told myself, one day I'm going to autograph these and auction them. And then I lost the box.
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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 out what's going to happen next.
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