“Neither our own passing nor the passing of an era is a tragedy, no matter how much we would like to think it is.” ThinkingMatterTragedyPassingPassingsEras Book:The Glass Rainbow: A Dave Robicheaux Novel Source: The Glass Rainbow: A Dave Robicheaux Novel
“I think all good narration contains an element of mystery and suspense. If it didn't, if the storyline were predictable, we would have no interest in reading it.” IfsThinkingReadingInterestMysteryElementsSuspensePredictableStorylineNarration Author:James Lee Burke
“I think the "crime novel" has replaced the sociological novel of the 1930s. I think the progenitor of that tradition is James M. Cain, who in my view is the most neglected writer in American literature.” ThinkingLiteratureViewsNovelCrimeTraditionReplacedNeglected1930sCainAmerican LiteratureSociologicalCrime Novels Author:James Lee Burke
“I believe every...man remembers the girl he thinks he should have married. She reappears to him in his lonely moments, or he sees her in the face of a young girl in the park, buying a snowball under an oak tree by the baseball diamond. But she belongs to back there, to somebody else, and that thought sometimes rends your heart in a way that you never share with anyone else.” ThinkingMenWayShouldBelieveHeartSometimesMomentsRememberFacesYoungGirlI BelieveTreeShareMarriedLonelyShould HaveBaseballEvery ManParksBuyingDiamondOaksOak TreeSnowball Author:James Lee Burke
“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.” ThinkingWorldWritingArtEndsLosesWorryFireLove YouLoversGet BetterVesselQuarrelsOngoingBeing In LoveFrostImpurity Author:James Lee Burke
“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.” ThinkingWritingArtTermFameDown The Road Author:James Lee Burke
