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James Lee Burke
American
Author
Home
Rejection
Time
You
Your
Yourself
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There's nothing like rejection to make you do an inventory of yourself.
James Lee Burke
You
Yourself
Nothing
Rejection
Inventory
Like
Make
The story of Ulysses and Agamemnon and Menelaus, of Jesus, of the Good Knight of Chaucer, lives in every one of us.
James Lee Burke
Good
Every
Chaucer
Knight
Ulysses
Story
Us
Lives
Jesus
If you put somebody on a crack pipe and give them a 9 mm Baretta, you don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out what's going to happen next.
James Lee Burke
You
Somebody
Out
Give
Put
Scientist
Rocket
Pipe
Crack
Going
Happen
Them
Next
Figure
I wouldn't write anything autobiographical. If you've lived a life like Laurence of Arabia, it might be a consideration, but otherwise it's a little bit vain, it seems to me.
James Lee Burke
Life
Me
You
Vain
Otherwise
Consideration
Bit
Arabia
Laurence
Seems
Write
Like
Autobiographical
Anything
Little
Little Bit
Might
Lived
The only thing an artist has to remember is to never lose faith in his vision.
James Lee Burke
Faith
Vision
Remember
Lose
Only
Never
His
Artist
The Only Thing
Thing
Never read bad stuff if you're an artist; it will impair your own game.
James Lee Burke
You
Game
Will
Own
Bad
Impair
Bad Stuff
Never
Stuff
Read
Artist
Your
You do it a day at a time. You write as well as you can, you put it in the mail, you leave it under submission, you never leave it at home.
James Lee Burke
Time
Day
Home
You
Submission
Write
Mail
Never
Put
Well
Leave
Using a first-person narrator is simply a matter of hearing the voice inside yourself.
James Lee Burke
Yourself
Matter
Inside
Voice
Simply
First-Person
Narrator
Hearing
Using
That's one of the great advantages of age. You can say, I don't want to, I don't care, you can throw temper tantrums, and nobody minds.
James Lee Burke
Great
You
Age
Care
Minds
Say
Temper
Throw
Advantages
Nobody
Tantrums
dont Care
Want
Every rejection is incremental payment on your dues that in some way will be translated back into your work.
James Lee Burke
Work
Will
Every
Rejection
Incremental
Back
Way
Some
Dues
Translated
Your
Payment
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