247 Quotes by James McBride

I think heroes who are not flawed are not believable.

As a writer, you have to be near people and hear stuff. I'm a hamburger and cheese kind of fellow; I'm not Henry David Thoreau.

Don't get me started on Americans and war. One of the things I learnt over in Italy is how they mythologised the war so that it's all good old gung-ho guys from Omaha and ignored everyone else's role.

I just don't see the point in sitting around hollering the blues over things you have no control over. It's all in God's hands.

John Brown was clearly flawed in real life. He did some terrible things, but he did some things none of us would have had the heart to do. His moral leanings were unquestionably admirable.

If you don't have humor, you're not going to make it. You're going to be one of those people who walks around with your head about to explode.

I thank God I was a reporter before I became a writer.

I wasn't a guy built to write about entertainment.

I don't come from Lake Wobegon, and that world is not mine. It's not that funny to me. It's funny to other people, and I'm not judging it, but the world that I come from is not considered funny by other people as well. There's so much pain in it.