Quotes from George V. Higgins

Nobody ever got started on a career as a writer by exercising good judgment, and no one ever will, either, so the sooner you break the habit of relying on yours, the faster you will advance.

The Red Sox are a religion. Every year we re-enact the agony and the temptation in the Garden. Baseball child's play? Hell, up here in Boston it's a passion play.

Data is what distinguishes the dilettante from the artist.

Life is hard but being stupid makes it harder.

Egotism: The art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.

This life's hard, but it's harder if you're stupid.

If you do not seek to publish what you have written, then you are not a writer and you never will be.

It was darker than a carload of assholes.

Jackie Brown at twenty-six, with no expression on his face, said that he could get some guns.

He's not a bad guy. He just didn't get any luck and by the time he figured out what was happening to him it was too late to do anything about it.

Egotism is the art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.