Quotes by : James Lee Burke

I would start with four fingers of Jack in a thick mug, with a sweating Budweiser back, and by midnight....

And every good artist knows that the gift comes from somewhere else, and it's there for a reason, and....

My experience with age it instills a degree of patience in some, leaves the virtuous spiritually unchanged,....

writing is like being in love. You never get better at it or learn more about it. The day you think you....

Louisiana is a fresh-air mental asylum.

...and I wonder if there is any way to adequately describe the folly that causes us to undo all the great....

I looked at Lucas with the pang that a parent feels when he knows his child will be hurt and that it's....

Humility is not a virtue in a writer, it is an absolute necessity.

As a revolutionary people, we Americans won a probable victory over the best and biggest army in the....

I had to feel sorry for Bubba's wife. In AA we called it denial. We take the asp to our breast and smile....