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
“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
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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