...he said, with sort of a little derisive smile, "How can you walk down the street with all this stuff going on inside you?" I said, "I don't know how you can walk down the street with nothing going on inside you.
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.
- Nelson Algren
Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring. - Nelson Algren
Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring.
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.
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…
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.
And money can't buy everything. For example: poverty. - Nelson Algren
And money can't buy everything. For example: poverty.
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…
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…
A book, a true book, is the writer's confessional. For, whether he would have it so or not, he is betrayed, directly or indirectly, by his characters… - Nelson Algren
A book, a true book, is the writer's confessional. For, whether he would have it so or not, he is betrayed, directly or indirectly, by his characters…
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