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Quotes by Larry Brown

After a year in therapy my psychiatrist said to me, Maybe life isn't for everyone.
– Larry Brown
I didn't hear what he said and really don't care.
– Larry Brown
I listen to some of the comments on WIP - they're playing parts of the press conference - and I can see where people would read into things. But if anyone was at the press conference, I think would sense how much I enjoyed Philly and how I loved working for those people.
– Larry Brown
I originally had an idea about a family of people who were homeless, just traveling around without any solid roots or any home, who made their way around working wherever they could. I started it with them. The idea of Joe as a protagonist came along a little later.
– Larry Brown
I think it is necessary to sit down and work for years and years to get it right. I think that's the main thing, that's what the emphasis has got to be on: individual work.
– Larry Brown
I'm happy writing full-time and I've been making a living off it so far. I haven't had any complaints with it at all. I'm happy.
– Larry Brown
I've read everything Harry Crews has ever published. I reckon all of his novels and even his first story, which was published in about 1963.
– Larry Brown
It took me about eight years to work my way up to publishing the first book, that first collection, Facing the Music.
– Larry Brown
The most romantic a woman ever said to me in bed was; Are you sure you are not a cop?
– Larry Brown
They drink a lotta beer, do a lotta riding around; I drink a lotta beer, do a lotta riding around.
– Larry Brown
You have to do something in your life that is honorable and not cowardly if you are to live in peace with yourself, and for the firefighter it is fire.
– Larry Brown