Brotherhood Quotes by William Kennedy

Everyone is interesting except the narrator in a first-person story.

— William Kennedy

Aspiring writers should read the entire canon of literature that precedes them, back to the Greeks, up to the current issue of The Paris…

— William Kennedy

“In the years after the death of Petrus, Hillegond had refused all offers of marriage, certain that her knowledge of men, despite her uncountable…

— William Kennedy

There's only a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot.

— William Kennedy

Without a sense of place the work is often reduced to a cry of voices in empty rooms, a literature of the self, at…

— William Kennedy

Anger makes people stupid.

— William Kennedy

“Love, is always insufficient, always a lie. Love, you are the clean shit of my soul. Stupid love, silly love. ”

— William Kennedy

Well-lit streets discourage sin, but don't overdo it.

— William Kennedy

We are only possible as what happened to us yesterday. We all change as well move

— William Kennedy

“He would not chance arrest by crawling into a corner of one of the old houses on Lower Broadway where the cops swept through…

— William Kennedy

“But after awhile you stand up, wipe the frost out of your ear, go someplace to get warm, bum a nickel for coffee, and…

— William Kennedy

“Why was it that suicide kept rising up in Francis' mind? Wake up in the weeds outside Pittsburgh, half frozen over, too cold to…

— William Kennedy

“One never knows the potential within the human breast.”

— William Kennedy

“...the only brotherhood they belonged to was the one that asked that enduring question: How do I get through the next twenty minutes? They…

— William Kennedy

“Mi culpa es todo lo que me queda. Si la pierdo, no habré significado nada, no habré hecho nada, no habré sido nada.”

— William Kennedy