James
Lee Burke
"It's
the people who read books who ultimately keep
the fires of civilization alive."
Called
"the Faulker of crime fiction," James Lee Burke is the author of twenty
novels and the winner of two Edgar Awards. We discussed writing, creativity,
the importance of books, and the death penalty, a subject which he explores
deeply in his latest book, Purple
Cane Road.
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"It's less out of compassion for the murderer than for ourselves that we should
give very serious thought to the validity of state-sponsored execution."
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"Every dictatorship first gets rid of books and artists. Those are the first
guys who get sent to the wall."
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"I believe that all creativity has a source outside the artist."
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