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Letter "J" » James Lee Burke Quotes
«That's one of the great advantages of age. You can say, I don't want to, I don't care, you can throw temper tantrums, and nobody minds.»
Author: James Lee Burke
«When you find the right people, you never let go. The people who count are the ones who are your friends in lean times. You have all the friends you want when things are going well.»
Author: James Lee Burke
«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.»
Author: James Lee Burke
«Using a first-person narrator is simply a matter of hearing the voice inside yourself.»
Author: James Lee Burke
«Each novel should be self-contained. That's what I aim for. Each should deal with a different theme and plot situations. The challenge is to encapsulate events and characters out of the past in such a way that the reader is familiar with the larger story, without being repetitive. That's what art is.»
Author: James Lee Burke
«All of Louisiana's a poem,»
Author: James Lee Burke
«I'm not sure the city can come back.»
Author: James Lee Burke
«I think of New Orleans as a gift from heaven for a writer,»
Author: James Lee Burke
«It's a city in which all forms of eccentricity were not just tolerated but always welcomed. There is no way to shock people in New Orleans. Tennessee Williams found a home there, and it's no coincidence.»
Author: James Lee Burke
«New Orleans was always America's netherworld, a sexual playground, like the Baths of Caracalla at the bottom of a Puritan country. Its history is emblematic of every event that has occurred in our history - the pre-Revolutionary colonial era, the age of exploration, and slavery, extermination of native Americans, and then of course the war between the states, it's all right there in the city of New Orleans.»
Author: James Lee Burke
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