George V. Higgins Quotes

• The seductiveness of baseball is that almost everyone with an abiding interest in it knows exactly how it should be played. And secretly believes that he could do it, if only God had seen fit to make him just a little bit less clumsy.

  George V. Higgins

  Baseball, Believe, Abiding

  George V. Higgins (1990). “The progress of the seasons: forty years of baseball in our town”, Prentice Hall

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• A cop told me, a long time ago, that there’s no substitute for knowing what you’re doing. Most of us scribblers do not. The ones that’re any good are aware of this. The rest write silly stuff. The trouble is this: The readers know it.

  George V. Higgins

  Silly, Writing, Knowing

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• Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.

  George V. Higgins

  Choices, Politics, Matter

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• Egotism is the art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.

  George V. Higgins

  Art, Ego, Narcissism

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• 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.

  George V. Higgins

  Character, Stories, Whole

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Life is hard but being stupid makes it harder.

  George V. Higgins

  Stupid, Life Is Hard, Harder

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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.

  George V. Higgins

  Taken, Writing, Incompetence

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• Show the reader what the character thinks about, and then the reader will think about it too.

  George V. Higgins

  Character, Thinking, Reader

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• What You Lose on the Swings You Make Up on the Merry-Go-Round.

  George V. Higgins

  Swings, Merry Go Round, Rounds

  George V. Higgins (2012). “Defending Billy Ryan”, p.78, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• 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.

  George V. Higgins

  Baseball, Children, Passion

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• You cannot write well without data.

  George V. Higgins

  Writing, Data, Wells

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• 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.

  George V. Higgins

  Exercise, Careers, Judgment

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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.

  George V. Higgins

  Fall, Suffering, Vapor

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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.

  George V. Higgins

  Blue, Sky, Formal

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