Nelson Algren Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• 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.

  Nelson Algren

  Writing, Blow, Creative

  "Nonconformity: Writing on Writing". Book by Nelson Algren, 1996.

• To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent.

  Nelson Algren

  Book, Writing, Guilty

• The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages of man.

  Nelson Algren

  Writing, Responsibility, Men

  1961 Preface to reprint of Chicago: City On The Make (first published 1951).

• Any writer who knows what he's doing isn't doing very much.

  Nelson Algren

  Writing, Knows

  Nelson Algren, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1942). “Never Come Morning”, p.295, Seven Stories Press

• I don't recommend being a bachelor, but it helps if you want to write.

  Nelson Algren

  Writing, Want, Helping

• I'm not against sentimentality. I think you need it. I mean, I don't think you get a true picture of people without it in writing... It's a kind of poetry, it's an emotional poetry, and, to bring it back to the literary scene, I don't think anything is true that doesn't have it, that doesn't have poetry in it.

  Nelson Algren

  Writing, Mean, Emotional

  Nelson Algren (1999). “The Man with the Golden Arm”, p.415, Seven Stories Press

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