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
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.
writing bars use
I was not going to use writing for advertising or journalism. I would tend bar, load trucks, chauffeur - do whatever it took. But from the moment I took my first writing workshop, I was a writer.
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.
animal choices always-believe
Choice, I've always believed, is all that separates us from animals.
hanging-out core
Or maybe I'd do what I always do - hang out and see what develops. Fatalist to the core.
different different-things
Everyone sees different things.
earth knows
Maybe there are some things we were put on this earth not to know.
grief said
Grief, he said, is carnivorous.
men good-man monsters
Which would be worse, to live as a monster or to die as a good man?
depression numbness weary
He wondered if this was what clinical depression felt like, a total numbness, a weary lack of hope.