Quotes by : James Lee Burke

Some people say you pick up the Dirty Boogie where you left it off. Others say you pick it up where you....

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

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.

The only thing an artist has to remember is to never lose faith in his vision.

I'm over the hill for come-on lines. On a quiet day, I can hear my liver rotting. For exercise, I fall....

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....

As I was to learn, patience and latitude and even humility are, paradoxically, the handmaidens of wealth,....

And like most middle-aged people who hear the clock ticking in their lives, I had come to resent a waste....