Larry McMurtry Quotes

You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination.

True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends’ boyfriends – and he accepts it.

One of the things that Ang brings to all of his projects is his deep sense of being a double exile, an outsider’s outsider.

Members of the Academy are mostly urban people. We are an urban nation. We are not a rural nation. It’s not easy even to get a rural story made.

Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.

If we know anything about man, it’s that he’s not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone considered undesirable seems to be a common temptation, not always resisted.

Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look – historical ignorance remains a national characteristic.

Americans don’t want cowboys to be gay.

A man that ain’t willin’ to cheat for a poke don’t want it bad enough.