James Lee Burke
James Lee Burke
James Lee Burkeis an American author of mysteries, best known for his Dave Robicheaux series. He has won an Edgar Award for Black Cherry Bluesand an Edgar Award for Cimarron Rose, and has also been presented with the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America. The Robicheaux character has been portrayed twice on screen, first by Alec Baldwinand then Tommy Lee Jones. Burke's 1982 novel, Two for Texas, was made into a 1998 TV Movie by the same...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
CountryUnited States of America
age fear-of-death your-freedom
Don't let anyone tell you that age purchases your freedom from fear of death.
white race vets
I could only wonder again at the white race's naïveté in always sending forth our worst members as our emissaries.
country war people
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.
rejects-you rejection way
Every rejection is incremental payment on your dues that in some way will be translated back into your work.
country men views
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.
war book details
But the participants [in war] never forgot the details of their experience, and like the Wandering Jew, they were condemned to remain their own history books, each containing a story they could not pass on to others and from which no one would learn anything of value.
thinking tragedy matter
Neither our own passing nor the passing of an era is a tragedy, no matter how much we would like to think it is.
people few-friends causes
My experience has been that people who die for causes have few friends in death.
art reading games
Never read bad stuff if you're an artist; it will impair your own game. I don't know if you ever played competitive tennis, but you learn not to watch bad tennis; it messes up your game. Art's the same way.
loyalty substitutes
There's no substitute for loyalty.
writing worry silence
If you don't compromise your gift, if you write each day as well as you can, and then submit your work and not worry about it and go on to the next piece, you suddenly find oddly enough that you're no more interested in the applause than the silence. You don't hear either one of them. You can never listen to the naysayers. If you do you won't survive.
hurt children parent
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 and that to try to preempt the rites of passage is an act of contempt for the child's courage.
commitment use montana
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.
grief money-cant-buy-happiness mess
Money can't buy happiness but it'll sure keep a mess of grief off your front porch.