Writing Quotes by Nelson Algren

Nelson Algren

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

Knows

Writing

Nelson Algren

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

Helping

Want

Writing

Nelson Algren

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.

Emotional

Mean

Writing

Nelson Algren

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.

Men

Responsibility

Writing

Nelson Algren

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

Book

Guilty

Writing

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 alienation from society is as essential to creative writing as it is to armed robbery.

Blow

Creative

Writing

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Writing Quotes by Nelson Algren

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

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

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.

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

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.

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