381 Quotes by Larry McMurtry

A man that ain't willin' to cheat for a poke don't want it bad enough.

Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.

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.

Members of the Academy are mostly urban people. We are an urban nation. We are not a rural nation. It's not easy even to get a rural story made.

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.

If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.

She trusted us more than she should have. She trusted us not to make the story unless we could make it right.

Perhaps the truth really is, Americans don?t want cowboys to be gay.

Bunk! Pure bunk! For all I know Yellow Hand died of old age.