Best 3 quotes of Rick Demarinis on MyQuotes

A thousand books on tennis won’t improve your serve, but a thousand serves will.

Kings and cabbages go back to compost, but good deeds stay green forever.

The Ploughmen is as good a book as I’ve read in years. Kim Zupan’s language is as rich as Cormac McCarthy’s, and like Cormac’s, it comes from ground-zero of the heart. I’m also reminded of James Lee Burke’s sure-footed prose and delight in metaphor. Luminous...nothing short of brilliant...a firstnovel that leaves me impatient for the next.