Quotes About Larry McMurtry

I suppose you set up reading the Good Book all night-spoken by Woodrow Call

I've always said that Guy Clark is a regional songwriter without being regional. He's global. His craft is like, well, Larry McMurtry would be an example. I kind of see Guy Clark and Larry McMurtry in the same wave.

Who asked them dern pigs?" he said. "I guess they tracked us," Augustus said. "They're enterprising pigs.

I suppose you set up reading the Good Book all night-spoken by Woodrow Call

And it's the only whorehouse in town. They say if you can sprout up twelve inches of dick you get to fuck free.

i'd hate to read all these books...that much reading could put your eyes out.

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

It didn't do to ignore men. The majority of them were harmless, with nothing worse than a low capacity to irritate—they were worse than chiggers but not as bad as bedbugs, in her view.

the family got nervous about blood poisoning and persuaded he and Call to saw it off.

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.

There's no one book that would define me; I'd have to name nearly every book that I've read over the past 70 years. Reading has sustained me and has been the one constant throughout my life.

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

I needed a man," Call replied. "I was hoping he might turn out to be a fighter." "No, he's just a jailer," Billy said.

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

The play may actually have profited from having an unworthy hero: Custer, for all his early brilliance

How about a kiss?" "Are you man enough to try?" she asked.

Certainly," Augustus said. "I never met a soul in this world as normal as me.

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

Anyway, whacking a surly bartender ain't much of a crime.

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