Conversations with Texas WritersLarry McMurtry declares, "Texas itself doesn't have anything to do with why I write. It never did." Horton Foote, on the other hand, says, "I've just never had a desire to write about any place else." In between those figurative bookends are hundreds of other writerssome internationally recognized, others just becoming knownwho draw inspiration and often subject matter from the unique places and people that are Texas. To give everyone who is