“I grew up in a herding tradition and that's
determined everything I've done. I was never good at herding cattle, but writing
is a way of herding words and rare books a way of herding books, and I suspect by
my constant driving around the country I'm practicing a form of trail-driving, driving
whatever happens to be ahead of me, the cars and the trucks, rather than
cattle.”—Texas novelist (Lonesome Dove)
and rare-book seller Larry McMurtry, quoted in Joseph Berger, “Herding Words,” The New York Times, June 9, 1985 Wednesday, October 25, 2017
Quote of the Day (Larry McMurtry, on Herding Words and Books)
“I grew up in a herding tradition and that's
determined everything I've done. I was never good at herding cattle, but writing
is a way of herding words and rare books a way of herding books, and I suspect by
my constant driving around the country I'm practicing a form of trail-driving, driving
whatever happens to be ahead of me, the cars and the trucks, rather than
cattle.”—Texas novelist (Lonesome Dove)
and rare-book seller Larry McMurtry, quoted in Joseph Berger, “Herding Words,” The New York Times, June 9, 1985 
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An outstanding novelist of Texas in the long distance and middle distance: The Last Picture Show, Lonesome Dove, long time contributor to The New York Review of Books and, as he says, rare book collector and seller!
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