George V. Higgins
George V. Higgins
George V. Higgins was an American author, lawyer, newspaper columnist, and college professor. He is best known for his bestselling crime novels. His full name was George Vincent Higgins II, after an uncle living in Randolph, but he dropped the numericin mid life. His books were all published as by George V. Higgins...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth13 November 1939
CountryUnited States of America
data dilettante research
Data is what distinguishes the dilettante from the artist.
art cannot
Egotism: The art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.
baseball children passion
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.
exercise careers judgment
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.
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What You Lose on the Swings You Make Up on the Merry-Go-Round,
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The received image of a writer is that of an unproductive sensitive who suffers from the vapors, is enslaved by his gonads, falls victim to romantic swoons and passes out at deadlines.
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Writing is the only trade I know of in which sniveling confessions of extreme incompetence are taken as credentials probative of powers to astound the multitude.
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Rental formal wear of the sky-blue, brocade and shiny varieties is favored by upwardly mobile young gangsters drafted as groomsmen for weddings.
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You cannot write well without data.
character stories ifs
The characters are telling you the story. I’m not telling you the story, they’re going to do it. If I do it right, you will get the whole story.
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Show the reader what the character thinks about, and then the reader will think about it too.
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Egotism is the art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.
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Life is hard but being stupid makes it harder.
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Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.