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
writing rejection one-day
You do it a day at a time. You just put your rejection slips in a shoebox and tell yourself one day you're going to autograph them and sell them at auction.
writing two choices
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?
art writing thinking
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.
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.
writing littles might
I wouldn't write anything autobiographical. If you've lived a life like Laurence of Arabia, it might be a consideration, but otherwise it's a little bit vain, it seems to me.
writing home mail
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.
art love-you writing
writing is like being in love. You never get better at it or learn more about it. The day you think you do is the day you lose it. Robert Frost called his work a lover's quarrel with the world. It's ongoing. It has neither a beginning nor an end. You don't have to worry about learning things. The fire of one's art burns all the impurities from the vessel that contains it.
yellow car earth
How do you caution a fawn about a cigarette a motorist has just flipped from his car window into a patch of yellow grass, or tell a sparrow that winged creatures eventually plummet to earth?
sloth talent misuse
To misuse one's talent, to be cavalier about it, to set it aside because of fear or sloth is unpardonable.
clever loss age
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.
trying umbilical-cord like-you
Why do I always feel like you're trying to staple my umbilical cord to the corner of your desk?
voice matter hearing
Using a first-person narrator is simply a matter of hearing the voice inside yourself.
jesus knights agamemnon
The story of Ulysses and Agamemnon and Menelaus, of Jesus, of the Good Knight of Chaucer, lives in every one of us.
artist games stuff
Never read bad stuff if you're an artist; it will impair your own game.