Literary Birthday – 27 September – Jim Thompson

Jim Thompson was born 27 September 1906 and died 7 April 1977.

Jim Thompson Quotes

1. There are 32 ways to write a story, and I’ve used every one, but there is only one plot – things are not as they seem.
2. There are things that have to be forgotten if you want to go on living.
3. When life attains a crisis, man’s focus narrows. […] The world becomes a stage of immediate concern, swept free of illusion.

James Myers Thompson was an American author and screenwriter, known for his hardboiled crime fiction. Thompson wrote more than thirty novels, including The Killer Inside Me, The Grifters, and A Hell of a Woman.

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by Amanda Patterson

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