Latest James Lee Burke Quotes from Interviews

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• Success, like fashion, is a fickle companion and can leave one in the wink of an eye.

  James Lee Burke

  Fashion, Eye, Fickle

• The best thing about being a best-selling writer is being a best-selling writer. More seriously, today I can write full time and pay the bills.

  James Lee Burke

  Writing, Pay, Bills

• What's the worst thing about getting old? Getting old.

  James Lee Burke

  Worst, Worst Things, Getting Old

• I think the "crime novel" has replaced the sociological novel of the 1930s. I think the progenitor of that tradition is James M. Cain, who in my view is the most neglected writer in American literature.

  James Lee Burke

  Thinking, Views, Crime Novels

• I think all good narration contains an element of mystery and suspense. If it didn't, if the storyline were predictable, we would have no interest in reading it.

  James Lee Burke

  Reading, Thinking, Suspense

• I feel blessed in the knowledge that I probably belong to the last generation that will remember what we call "traditional America."

  James Lee Burke

  Blessed, America, Generations