You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich. A certain ruthlessness and a sense of alienation from society is as essential to creative writing as it is to armed robbery.
Any writer who knows what he's doing isn't doing very much. - Nelson Algren
Any writer who knows what he's doing isn't doing very much.
- Nelson Algren
You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich. A certain ruthlessness and a sense of alie… - Nelson Algren
You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich. A certain ruthlessness and a sense of alie…
And never, ever, no matter what else you do in your whole life, never sleep with anyone whose troubles are worse than your own. - Nelson Algren
And never, ever, no matter what else you do in your whole life, never sleep with anyone whose troubles are worse than your own.
Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring. - Nelson Algren
Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring.
Yet once you've come to be part of this particular patch, you'll never love another. Like loving a woman with a broken nose, you may well find loveli… - Nelson Algren
Yet once you've come to be part of this particular patch, you'll never love another. Like loving a woman with a broken nose, you may well find loveli…
Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own. - Nelson Algren
Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.
And money can't buy everything. For example: poverty. - Nelson Algren
And money can't buy everything. For example: poverty.
Thinking of Poe, thinking of Mark Twain and Vachel Lindsay, thinking of Jack London and Tom Wolfe, one begins to feel there is almost no way of becom… - Nelson Algren
Thinking of Poe, thinking of Mark Twain and Vachel Lindsay, thinking of Jack London and Tom Wolfe, one begins to feel there is almost no way of becom…
For the masses who do the city's labor also keep the city's heart. - Nelson Algren
For the masses who do the city's labor also keep the city's heart.
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