A cop told me, a long time ago, that there’s no substitute for knowing what you’re doing. Most of us scribblers do not. The ones that’re any good are…

- George V. Higgins

Life is hard but being stupid makes it harder.

- George V. Higgins

Writing is the only trade I know of in which sniveling confessions of extreme incompetence are taken as credentials probative of powers to astound th…

- George V. Higgins

The Red Sox are a religion. Every year we re-enact the agony and the temptation in the Garden. Baseball child's play? Hell, up here in Boston it's a …

- George V. Higgins

The seductiveness of baseball is that almost everyone with an abiding interest in it knows exactly how it should be played. And secretly believes tha…

- George V. Higgins

Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.

- George V. Higgins

The characters are telling you the story. I'm not telling you the story, they're going to do it. If I do it right, you will get the whole story.

- George V. Higgins

Show the reader what the character thinks about, and then the reader will think about it too.

- George V. Higgins

What You Lose on the Swings You Make Up on the Merry-Go-Round.

- George V. Higgins