Quotes About McMurtry

There would be a trial, of course. But I had watched a few trials in Thalia, and I had seen people a lot dumber than Hud get away with a lot worse than what he did.

His memories were too sad, his hopes too thin. To have to say things on paper seemed a terrible task, for it stirred the memories.

It's his dern laziness," Call said. "Jake just kind of drifts. Any wind can blow him.

by far my most popular novel, and one that allows me to join the small company of "respectable" writers whose fiction deals with the American West: Cormac McCarthy, Walter Van Tilburg Clark, Tom Lee and a handful of others

Give Call a grievance, however silly, and he would save it like money.

It's very peculiar, the situations life presents one with, Father Geoff reflected.

Henpecked, the great Wyatt Earp," Cody said. "You evidently don't know Jessie," Wyatt said. "If she's in one of her tempers she'd put a hyena to flight ...

I still think we ought to just hire the town and take it with us. Then we'd have a good barkeep and someone to play the pianer.

was necessary to ignore most of those Gus made or else you got bogged down in useless conversation.

I can work and think too," Call said. "You're the only man I know whose brain don't work unless it's in the shade.

The woman, Dillard whispered. The woman. They say he missed that whore.

Men are about as worthless a race of people as I've ever encountered.

I've just served five years in a great war —the only struggle that still interests me is the conflict with the sentence, sir—the English sentence.

Pea had just sense enough to fear Comanches—that didn't require an abundance of sense. Mexican bandits did not impress him.

If I had a mind to rent pigs, I'd be mighty upset. A man that likes to rent pigs won't be stopped.

I never met a soul in this world as normal as me.

Only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas without eating a chicken fried steak.

I'm an enormous fan of American literature, and especially the great novels of Larry McMurtry, 'Lonesome Dove,' Cormac McCarthy, Elmore Leonard.