Quotes by James Carlos Blake

25 quotes found

Writer · American · 1943–2025

American writer (1943–2025)

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history rules violence experience writing-advice self-knowledge crime character first-sentence sex world greed pride sins attitudes lovers men relationships women morality self-delusion freedomce liberty self-reliance tolerance robbery suspense thrill moral-law money

“They loved the sea. They taught themselves to sail, to navigate and read the weather. Without their mother's knowledge and long before she thought them old enough to sail outside the harbor, they w...”
— James Carlos Blake
mothers-and-sons sailing sea

“The moon grew plump and pale as a peeled apple, waned into the passing nights, then showed itself again as a thin silver crescent in the twilit western sky. The shed of leaves became a cascade of r...”
— James Carlos Blake
countryside seasons winter

“Just because it's a world of thieves out there don't mean there ain't no rules to it.”
— James Carlos Blake
rules

“Without the right to defend yourself--and the right to possesss the means to do it--all other supposed rights are so much hot air.”
— James Carlos Blake
rights self-defense

“Aspiring novelists should be taught that the old adage, “Write about what you know,” isn’t limited to what you have personally experienced. Vicarious experience is also a great part of what you kno...”
— James Carlos Blake
experience history writing-advice