Larry McMurtry
Larry McMurtry
Larry Jeff McMurtryis an American novelist, essayist, bookseller and screenwriter whose work is predominantly set in either the old West or in contemporary Texas. His novels include Horseman, Pass By, The Last Picture Showand Terms of Endearment, which were adapted into films earning 26 Academy Award nominations. His 1985 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Lonesome Dove was adapted into a television miniseries that earned 18 Emmy Award nominations, with the other three novels in his Lonesome Dove series adapted into three more...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth3 June 1936
CityArcher City, TX
CountryUnited States of America
I make my share of mistakes, but one I never make is to underestimate the power of things. People imbued from childhood with the myth of the primacy of feeling seldom like to admit they really want things as much as they might want love, but my career has convinced me that plenty of them do. And some want things a lot worse than they want love.
There isn't a thought in my head I care to be alone with for more than five minutes.
People would be bored shitless if they had to love only the good in someone they care about.
Most heartfelt, I thank my typewriter. My typewriter is a Hermes 3000, surely one of the noblest instruments of European genius.
It allows him to connect with, to find his way to, other exiles and outsiders.
I think it will be able to stay solvent and stay open, ... I didn't want to close it.
Bunk! Pure bunk! For all I know Yellow Hand died of old age.
Perhaps the truth really is, Americans don?t want cowboys to be gay.
She trusted us more than she should have. She trusted us not to make the story unless we could make it right.
When Augustus came out on the porch the blue pigs were eating a rattlesnake-not a very big one.
It's not going to threaten anybody's manhood going to see a movie in which there is gay sex.
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.
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.
A man that ain't willin' to cheat for a poke don't want it bad enough.