Top 17 Quotes & Sayings by Craig Johnson

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Last updated on December 18, 2024.

Craig Allen Johnson is an American author who writes mystery novels. He is best known for his Sheriff Walt Longmire novel series. The books are set in northern Wyoming, where Longmire is sheriff of the fictional county of Absaroka. The series debuted in 2004 and as of September 2019, Johnson has written 15 novels, two novellas, and many short stories featuring Longmire. Some of the novels have been on The New York Times Best Seller list. In 2012, Warner Horizon adapted the novels for a television series. Johnson lives at a ranch where he built a residence in the small town of Ucross, Wyoming—population 25.

American - Writer | Born: January 16, 1961

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The place was packed as we flooded in, all the patrons freezing at the sight of an armed sheriff, two deputies, an Indian, and a construction worker; we probably looked like the Village People.

Craig Johnson

Revolution is the industry of young men.

Craig Johnson

I approach poetry and spirituality like literary nitroglycerin -- a little can do a lot and you better damn well be careful with it.

Craig Johnson

Writing is a solitary pursuit and I think you have to be partially at peace with yourself, but it's the other part that's usually producing the stuff worth reading.

Craig Johnson

If there's a character type I despise, it's the all-capable, all-knowing, physically perfect protagonist. My idea of hell would be to be trapped in a four-hundred page, first-person, first-tense, running monologue with a character like that. I think writers who produce characters along those lines should graduate from high school and move on.

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We've never done a coordinated music effort. Everything else we've done has been around a holiday - Halloween, Mardi Gras, half way to Mardi Gras, St. Patrick's Day.

Craig Johnson

The problem with anger is that once it burns out, you're left with empty tanks.

Craig Johnson

I looked over at her; if women knew how good they looked in the dash light of oversized pickup trucks, they'd never get out of them.

Craig Johnson

He mulled that over. "Sheriff Connally woulda let us shoot 'em." I reached over and took his coffee away from him. "Yep. Lucian probably would have done the job himself, but we're living in more enlightened times." I drained his cup and handed it back with a smile. "Ain't it grand?

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A writer, like a sheriff, is the embodiment of a group of people and without their support both are in a tight spot.

Craig Johnson

Temptation out of reach does you no good.

Craig Johnson

It was the second time that day that I stood looking at a space where a large thing wasn't where it was supposed to be.

Craig Johnson

Henry figured that the reason the Cheyenne had always ridden Appaloosas into battle was because by the time the men got there, they were so angry with the horses they were ready to kill everything.

Craig Johnson

Artists are always good for conversation, so long as you want to talk about their art.

Craig Johnson

Maybe there really isn't any such thing as mortality; life simply wears us out with love.

Craig Johnson

A life without friends means death without company. (Adiskidegabeko bizita, auzogabeko heriotza.) —BASQUE PROVERB

Craig Johnson

If someone is starving, excessively exercising or using purging behaviors, then we know they are in a high-risk place for turning on the psychiatric illnesses.

Craig Johnson

Top 17 Quotes & Sayings by Craig Johnson

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