Quotes by
Nelson Algren |
1909-1981 , American writer
He is best known for The Man with the Golden Arm, a 1949 novel that won the National Book Award[ and was adapted as the 1955 film of the same name (starring Frank Sinarta).In the late 1940s and early 1950s he was one of the best known literary writers in America.
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Quotations
| • | It is strange how fragile this man-creature is.....in one second he's just garbage. Garbage, that's all. 3 |
| • | Any writer who knows what he's doing isn't doing very much. 3 |
| • | I don't recommend being a bachelor, but it helps if you want to write. 2 |
| • | 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 becoming a creative writer in America without being a loser. 2 |
| • | And money can't buy everything. For example: poverty. 2 |
| • | Never sleep with someone whose troubles are worse than your own. 2 |
| • | To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent. 2 |
| • | Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring. 2 |
| • | A walk on the wild side. (title of novel, 1956) 2 |
| • | 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. 2 |
