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.

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

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

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

If there is any human tragedy, there is only one, and it occurs when we forget who we are and remain....

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....