Top 10 Quotes by James Sallis

Life sends us messages all the time - then sits around laughing over how we're not gonna be able to figure them out.

Life sends us messages all the time - then sits around laughing over how we're not gonna be able to figure them out.

Laughing, Able, Messages

James Sallis (2012). “Drive: The book that inspired the major film starring Ryan Gosling”, p.27, Oldcastle Books

He existed a step or two to one side of the common world, largely out of sight, a shadow, all but invisible. Whatever he owned, either he could hoist it on his back and lug it along or he could walk away from it. Anonymity was the thing he loved most about the city, being a part of it and apart from it at the same time.

James Sallis

Sight, Cities, Two

James Sallis (2012). “Drive: The book that inspired the major film starring Ryan Gosling”, p.20, Oldcastle Books

Mostly what you lose with time, in memory, is the specificity of things, their exact sequence. It all runs together, becomes a watery soup. Portmanteau days, imploded years. Like a bad actor, memory always goes for effect, abjuring motivation, consistency, good sense.

James Sallis

Running, Memories, Motivation

James Sallis (2012). “Black Hornet”, p.13, Oldcastle Books

Truth is, of course, relative. But then, so is relative.

James Sallis

Truth Is, Courses, Relative

James Sallis (2012). “The Killer is Dying”, p.21, Oldcastle Books

Bombs fall and wipe out civilization as we know it, two things come up out of the ashes: roaches and F-150s.

James Sallis

Fall, Civilization, Two

James Sallis (2011). “Drive: The book that inspired the major film starring Ryan Gosling”, p.80, Oldcastle Books

The best predictor of preschool children's physical activity is simply being outdoors.

James Sallis

Nature, Children, Preschool

"No Child Left Inside" by Isabel Cowles, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 11, 2009.

Get Carter remains among the great crime novels, a lean, muscular portrait of a man stumbling along the hard edge - toward redemption. Ted Lewis cuts to the bone.

James Sallis

Cutting, Men, Crime Novels

In the darkness things always go away from you. Memory holds you down while regret and sorrow kick hell out of you. The only help you'll get is a few hard drinks and morning.

James Sallis

Morning, Memories, Regret

James Sallis (2012). “The Long-Legged Fly”, p.136, Oldcastle Books

What critics might call eclectic, and Eastern folks quirky, we Southerners call cussedness-and it's the cornerstone of the American genius. As in: 'There's a right way, a wrong way, and my way.' You want to see how that looks on the page, pick up any of Craig McDonald's novels. He's built him a nice little shack out there way off all the reg'lar roads, and he's brewing some fine, heady stuff. Leave your money under the rock and come back in an hour.

James Sallis

Nice, Rocks, Mcdonalds