Larry McMurtry
Larry McMurtry
Larry Jeff McMurtryis an American novelist, essayist, bookseller and screenwriter whose work is predominantly set in either the old West or in contemporary Texas. His novels include Horseman, Pass By, The Last Picture Showand Terms of Endearment, which were adapted into films earning 26 Academy Award nominations. His 1985 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Lonesome Dove was adapted into a television miniseries that earned 18 Emmy Award nominations, with the other three novels in his Lonesome Dove series adapted into three more...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth3 June 1936
CityArcher City, TX
CountryUnited States of America
In times of crisis human beings don't have it in them to be rational.
It's a fine world, though rich in hardships at times.
The earth is mostly just a boneyard. But pretty in the sunlight.
Though loyal and able and brave, Pea had never displayed the slightest ability to learn from his experience, though his experience was considerable. Time and again he would walk up on the wrong side of a horse that was known to kick, and then look surprised when he got kicked.
Part of the trick of being happy is a refusal to allow oneself to become too nostalgic for the heady triumphs of one's youth.
The older the violin, the sweeter the music.
Certainly on the vast windy plain, there was plenty of nothing to be looked at.
They say money kinda melts when you take it across a border.
Razzy was insulting me silently somehow.
If a warrior lacked wisdom, courage alone would not keep him alive for long.
I don't do well with changes in my routine. I read at least three newspapers a day, for example. I'm frustrated if for some reason I can't get ahold of all three.
The only bookstore I had was the paperback rack at the drugstore.
The Western notion of masculinity goes back a long way. It doesn't allow for women, and it's also racist - it doesn't allow for other cultures.
One of the things that Ang brings to all of his projects is his deep sense of being a double exile, an outsider's outsider.