Jim Thompson Quotes:
Ocupation: Author
Life: September 27, 1906 - April 7, 1977
Birthday: September 27
Death: April 7
In lots of books I read, the writer seems to go haywire every time he reaches a high point. He’ll start leaving out punctuation and running his words together and babble about stars flashing and sinking into a deep dreamless sea. And you can’t figure out whether the hero’s laying his girl or a cornerstone. I guess that kind of crap is supposed to be pretty deep stuff—a lot of the book reviewers eat it up, I notice. But the way I see it is, the writer is just too goddam lazy to do his job. And I’m not lazy, whatever else I am. I’ll tell you everything.
source: Jim Thompson (1997). “Crime novels: American noir of the 1950s”
topic: Girl, Running, Jobs, Reviewers, Book Review, High Points
