Dennis Lehane
Dennis Lehane
Dennis Lehane is an American author. He has written several novels; the first several were a series of mysteries featuring a couple of protagonists and other recurring characters, including A Drink Before the War. Of these, his fourth, Gone, Baby, Gone, was adapted as a 2007 film by the same name...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth4 August 1965
CityDorchester, MA
CountryUnited States of America
lying accepted leaks
You've learned that every good lie is threaded with truth and every accepted truth leaks lies.
... scarred by wisdom she'd never asked for.
smell want asking
How am I supposed to let you go, that's all I'm asking. I want to hold you again, smell you, and, yes too, I just want you to fade. To please, please fade...
reality thinking victim
That's the thing about being a victim; you start to think it'll happen to you on a regular basis. It's living with the reality of your own vulnerability, and it sucks.
loneliness warning shocking
The loneliness of another can be shocking when it lays itself bare without warning.
book good-day bad-day
Catch me on a good day, I think half of my books aren't too bad. Catch me on a bad day, I think I've never written a good line.
believe levels language
I believe so deeply in the primacy of language, in lifting your prose to the highest level you're capable of and making your words symphonic.
writing seems
I love to write, so it rarely seems like work - even when it gets arduous.
growing-up blessed home
I was blessed to grow up in really interesting times and to go back to a home where I was very safe.
people creative entering
The best thing that can happen to people entering creative professions is the dwindling of all other possibilities.
writing dark two
I found that I could write two kinds of short stories: I could write very absurd, kind of surrealistic, funny stories; or I could write very dark, realistic - hyper-realistic - stories. I was never happy with that, because I couldn't meld the two.
home kids catholic
I won the parental lottery. Most of the kids I grew up with either came from really fractured homes, or really violent ones. I went home to a very traditional, good Irish Catholic family.
neat-and-tidy needs world
The world does not have tidy endings. The world does not have neat connections. It is not filled with epiphanies that work perfectly at the moment that you need them.
writing simple secret
It's very simple. If you learn how to write well, to write with depth, cream will rise to the top. You'll get published. But, there is no secret.