Larry Jeff McMurtry (b.1936) is an American novelist, essayist, bookseller, and screenwriter whose work is predominantly set in either the Old West or in contemporary Texas. His novels include Horseman, Pass By, The Last Picture Show, and Terms of Endearment, which were adapted into films earning 26 Academy Award nominations. His 1985 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Lonesome Dove was adapted into a television miniseries that earned 18 Emmy Award nominations, with the other three novels in his Lonesome Dove series adapted into three more miniseries, earning eight more Emmy nominations. McMurtry and cowriter Diana Ossana adapted the screenplay for Brokeback Mountain, which earned eight Academy Award nominations with three wins, including McMurtry and Ossana for Best Adapted Screenplay.
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The lives of happy people are dense with their own doings—crowded, active, thick. But the sorrowing are nomads, on a plain with few landmarks and no boundaries; sorrow’s horizons are vague and its demands are few.
—Larry McMurtry
Topics: Sorrow, Sadness
You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination. Hold the philosophy, hold the adjectives, just give us a plain subject and verb and perhaps a wholesome, nonfattening adverb or two.
—Larry McMurtry
Topics: Writers, Authors & Writing, Writing
True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends boyfriends—and he accepts it.
—Larry McMurtry
Topics: Maturity
If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.
—Larry McMurtry
Topics: Action, Carpe-diem, Aging
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