Mccrae Quotes

#1. I don't know that I find either aspect of Jesus more interesting than the other, although maybe I think about the God one more.

Shane McCrae

#2. Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from falling hands we throw.

John McCrae

#3. You probably drink too much. If you hand me that bottle, I'll reduce your temptations.
Augustus "Gus" McCrae

Larry McMurtry

#4. I think about the body kind of all the time, being as how I'm really uncomfortable in mine.

Shane McCrae

#5. You know Deets is like me - he's not one to quit on a garment just because it's got a little age - spoken by Augustus McCrae

Larry McMurtry

#6. Bid them be patient, and some day, anon,
They shall feel earth enwrapt in silence deep;
Shall greet, in wonderment, the quiet dawn,
And in content may turn them to their sleep.

John McCrae

#7. The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below

John McCrae

#8. Fiona McCrae is a really amazing editor. Really smart and very astute about what a story needs.

Ru Freeman

#9. I was just thinking about how my grandparents, who raised me, would be considered "white trash," whatever that means - mostly for being racists, I'd say. And how, as a child, I wanted to be like them, and identified with them culturally.

Shane McCrae

#10. Why America has never made the connection between tract housing and psychosis is beyond me

Jackson Tippett McCrae

#11. Captain McCrae was wanting to know the answer to questions that had no answer.

Larry McMurtry

#12. I do believe in Jesus as wholly God and wholly human, and I believe the human part was human.

Shane McCrae

#13. A white noise app wouldn't work for me - I would be too distracted by the non-white noise noises I could still hear, even more distracted than i would otherwise be. So I have to just accept the regular noises.

Shane McCrae

#14. I choose you, James Thomas Kellan MacCrae,to be my king and coruler.

Carey Corp

#15. There's no such thing as an animal too big too kill, AND we're cornered by such animals every day.

Shane McCrae

#16. Now, tomorrow Miss Laurie McCrae and me, we have an appointment with a sky pilot who will make it proper for us to travel in double harness.

Louis L'Amour

#17. A man who wouldn't cheat for a poke don't want one bad enough.
Augustus "Gus" McCrae

Larry McMurtry

#18. Like restless birds, the breath of coming rain
Creeps, lilac-laden, up the village street

John McCrae

#19. I actually can't listen to music and write poetry at the same time, but I do kind of think about the music I've been listening to when I write.

Shane McCrae

#20. I wanted to be a composer for a while, and for a while, and maybe still, I found writing music much easier than writing poetry. So maybe my brain clings to it.

Shane McCrae

#21. McCrae was the kind of southerner who had only left the parish of his birth to serve his country in wartime or to carry bulls across the state for mating purposes.

Greg Iles

#22. I had/have a habit of sending books out before they're ready. And then I edit with almost absurd intensity. But I've done about a book a year.

Shane McCrae

#23. Listening to women ain't the fashion in this part of the country.
Augustus McCrae

Larry McMurtry

#24. We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

John McCrae

#25. I learned to write with my desk in the living room, next to the TV. But mostly in my head, and I try to be able to do it under any circumstances.

Shane McCrae

#26. I'm always glad that other people are way smarter about my poems than I am.

Shane McCrae

#27. Dern, I hate cooking with shit.
Augustus McCrae to Lorena Wood

Larry McMurtry

#28. I think I cause a lot of headaches for editors - it's impossible to keep up with the ridiculous amount of changes I make.

Shane McCrae

#29. I just can't write and listen to music at the same time.

Shane McCrae

#30. I like having a phrase lying around to get poems started. It's like having a key.

Shane McCrae

#31. It ain't dying I'm talking about, it's living. I doubt it matters where you die, but it matters where you live." ~spoken by Augustus McCrae

Larry McMurtry

#32. More is missed by not looking than not knowing

Thomas McCrae Osler