George V. Higgins Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By George V. Higgins
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
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
Life is hard but being stupid makes it harder. — George V. Higgins
Egotism: The art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see. — George V. Higgins
Data is what distinguishes the dilettante from the artist. — George V. Higgins
Never tell your reader what your story is about. Reading is a participatory sport. People do it because they are intelligent and enjoy figuring things out for themselves.
(advicetowriters) — George V. Higgins
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
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
Show the reader what the character thinks about, and then the reader will think about it too. — George V. Higgins
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
If you do not seek to publish what you have written, then you are not a writer and you never will be. — George V. Higgins
It was darker than a carload of assholes. — George V. Higgins
Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do. — George V. Higgins
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
What You Lose on the Swings You Make Up on the Merry-Go-Round, — George V. Higgins
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