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
Perhaps the truth really is, Americans don?t want cowboys to be gay.
It's not going to threaten anybody's manhood going to see a movie in which there is gay sex.
The lives of happy people are dense with their own doings - crowded, active, thick. But the sorrowing are nomads, on a plain with few landmarks and no boundaries; sorrow's horizons are vague and its demands are few.
She trusted us more than she should have. She trusted us not to make the story unless we could make it right.
If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.
But the English are different, and they don't know how to be other than different.
I once owned a collection of 77 novels that won the Pulitzer. The only good novel of the bunch was The Grapes of Wrath.
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.
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.
Razzy was insulting me silently somehow.
If a warrior lacked wisdom, courage alone would not keep him alive for long.