Larry Jeff McMurtry is an illustrious American essayist, screenwriter, novelist, and bookseller. He is distinguished primarily for setting his work either in contemporary Texas or in the Old West. His novels, ‘Terms of Endearment,’ ‘Horseman, Pass By,’ and ‘The Last Picture Show,’ were adapted into films which bagged in ten Academy Awards out of twenty-six nominations. He won ‘Pulitzer Prize’ for his novel ‘Lonesome Dove,’ in 1985. The same novel was adapted into a television miniseries and won seven ‘Emmy Awards,’ out of eighteen nominations. He adapted the screenplay for ‘Brokeback Mountain’ along with cowriter Diana Ossana for which they bagged in three ‘Academy Awards’ out of eight nominations. Read through the compilation of famous quotes by Larry McMurtry which have been excerpted from his writings, essays, books, interviews, tweets and public utterances.