Loren D. Estleman Quotes & Sayings

An execution carried out in secrecy is no better than lynching from a dry branch. — Loren D. Estleman

In 1914, Franz Ferdinand, the Austrian imperial heir, was shot and killed by a Serbian nationalist in Sarajevo. Do you know the motive behind the act?
It was in retaliation for the subjugation of the Sebs in Austria.
It was not.Franz Ferdinand had stated his intention to introduce reforms favorable to the Serbs in his empire. Had he survived to ascend the throne, he would have made a revolution unnecessary. In plain terms, he was killed because he was going to give the rebels what they were shouting for. They needed a despot in the palace in order to seize it.
What's good for reform is bad for the reformers — Loren D. Estleman

Cherokee's American, Ned. It don't get more American than that. — Loren D. Estleman

If the detective should suffer overmuch from the artistic temperament, and his fellow lodger should dwell overlong upon the fairness of a wrist or the timber of a feminine voice, so much the better for us. Literature never produced a relationship more symbiotic nor a warmer and more timeless friendship. — Loren D. Estleman

The world's black and white, good and bad, no matter what you hear. The people who say it isn't have already chosen black. — Loren D. Estleman

Now came details of Goldby's adventures with the Cooks and their band. Chicken, Dynamite Dick, The Verdigris Kid. I wish these fellows read something other than Ned Buntline's Own. Why haven't I heard of this Goldsby before this? — Loren D. Estleman

Appeared fierce, but Oscar decided this was due more to the fact that his face was still cut and swollen from — Loren D. Estleman

I don't have so many friends I can afford to drop one just because he tried to kill me. — Loren D. Estleman

I know a rancher like you down below Hell's Canyon. He runs about six cows and five thousand sheep. But he calls himself a cattleman. — Loren D. Estleman

Without question, his picture did not do him justice, but again, he was dead when it was taken — Loren D. Estleman

Steve Forman is a brutally funny writer. His no-nonsense, unadorned style begs comparison to Dashiell Hammett, but Hammett's humor at its darkest never hit home this hard. Reading of Eddie Perlmutter's exploits is like rolling in an aisle paved with broken glass and wanting to do it all over again two minutes later. — Loren D. Estleman