Poe Ballantine Quotations

One evening, after my wife and son had gone out for a walk, I decided to have a talk with my neighbor, who I believe was murdered. I had gotten to know and admire him by listening to people talk about him. He seemed a wonderful person with much to give.

I have learned that I am not built for conflict or controversy. I have also learned that, in all my life, I have never chosen a story. The story has always chosen me.

Chadron had a water tower, grain elevators, a tanning salon, a video rental store, a small liberal arts college, a Hardee's, a stoplight, and a curling yellow sign in the pet store window that read, 'Hamsters and Tarantulas Featured Today.'

Western Nebraska is the only place in all my travels where I have seen the dust blowing and the rain falling at the same time.

There's good money in true crime, I'm told, and plenty of it lying around, but it's a devil of an art form.

Most people would live in an outhouse in Bangladesh before they would voluntarily move to Nebraska.

'Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere' took me six years to write.

I'm that sensitive, honest guy who likes people, wants to know why, and who puzzles everyone by continually putting himself in harm's way.

Short chaps evolved naturally, but I didn't title and number them till much later. I like short chaps, like short books too, as a rule.

Amazon is evil, like anything big, but we can't help if it flows the very center of literature.