John D Macdonald Travis Mcgee Quotes

#1. I was raised on John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee series. Something about this genre - hard-boiled-private-eye-with-heart-of-gold - never failed to take me away from whatever difficulties haunted my daily world to a wonderful land where I was no more than an enthralled spectator.

Alan Furst

#2. Set fire to cities and nations, to hearts and minds, to the very core of every human spirit. Make sure your words seep into the skin of the reader, leaving trace minerals that sustain the ailing human shell. Make them pay attention. Set fire to the soul. Anything less is an abomination to creation.

Susan Marie

#3. Sex had always been at the top of her favorite-things list, but this desire-this total, all-encompassing need-was something else entirely.

Bella Andre

#4. I had that stubborn streak, the Irish in me I guess.

Gregory Peck

#5. If you can believe, you will see many miracles.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#6. Logic presumes a separation of subject from object; therefore logic is not final wisdom.This is Zen. This is my motorcycle maintenance.

Robert M. Pirsig

#7. Literature is about being a complex, contradictory human being.

Julia Alvarez

#8. The Bar Room has a corner table placed strategically at a point diagonally across from the entrance. the table of tables in the setting of settings in the building of buildings. In the religion of lunch, this is the holy of holies.

Raymond Sokolov

#9. I was 3 years old and Mary Poppins [1964] made an impression on me that was seismic, apparently. I fell into some kind of total creative, imaginative rapture over that movie that propelled this industry of Mary Poppins drawings, plays, performances - just an obsessive, creative reaction to it.

Todd Haynes

#10. You taught me once, Lorn. I'm a better man for it. But now it's my turn to teach you. Men can change. Sometimes they have to fall. Sometimes they have to leap.

Pierce Brown

#11. In all emotional conflicts, the thing you find the most difficult to do, is the thing that you should do.
Meyer's Law

John D. MacDonald

#12. We will never forget and we will not relent until our job is done.

Doc Hastings

#13. Venissa is a perfect destination for day-trippers from Venice proper who are searching for great food and a little adventure; it's a 30-minute jaunt by vaporetto from St. Mark's, quicker by water taxi.

Roger Morris

#14. ultimate demonstration of Constance's taste for the

Tracy Rees

#15. In the sense of movement a boat is a living thing.
It is a companion in the night. Each boat has its own manner and character.
Travis McGee, 1985

John D. MacDonald