17 Quotes by Poe Ballantine

Because I've lived a risky and unconventional life, I don't often struggle for subjects to write about.

All my life, I never realized you could have a conversation with a ghost.

I first came across Chadron, Nebraska, by accident in 1994.

I studied a truckload of true crime, praying for illumination, but most true crime relies on luridness and voyeurism for effect.

I'm compared to Kerouac, I suppose, because he traveled and rejected middle-class values, but the similarities end there.

I'm that sensitive, honest guy who likes people, wants to know why, and who puzzles everyone by continually putting himself in harm's way.

'Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere' took me six years to write.

Most people would live in an outhouse in Bangladesh before they would voluntarily move to Nebraska.

There's good money in true crime, I'm told, and plenty of it lying around, but it's a devil of an art form.